ISBN:
9780714527574
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (276 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender
DDC:
305.4/2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
'The break with the past, which has been described by others as the transition to a capitalist mode of production, I describe here as the transition from the aegis of gender to the regime of sex.' Ivan Illich insists that we survey attitudes to male and female in both industrial society and its antecedents in order to recover a lost 'art of living'. 'While under any reign of gender women might be subordinate, under any economic regime they are only second sex... both genders are stripped, and, neutered, the man ends up on top.' He argues that only a truly radical scrutiny of scarcity, with spe
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; Guide to Titled Footnotes; Acknowledgements; I. Sexism and Economic Growth; II. Economic Sex; III. Vernacular Gender; IV. Vernacular Culture; V. Gender Domains and Vernacular Milieu; VI. Gender Through Time; VII. From Broken Gender to Economic Sex; A, B, C; INDEX; D, E, F; G, H, I; J, K, L; M, N, O; P, Q, R; S, T, U; V, W, X; Y, Z; BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR; Copyright;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
