Sexual divisions and society : process and change / edited by Diana Leonard Barker and Sheila Allen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leonard, Diana, editor.

Allen, Sheila, 1930-2009, editor.

Series:

Routledge Library Editions: British Sociological Association Series

Routledge Library Editions: British Sociological Association Series ; v.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Congresses.

Sex role.

Feminism--Congresses.

Feminism.

Families--Congresses.

Families.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 286 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Summary:

Originally published in 1976, Sexual Divisions and Society suggests that sociology has often included women completely within the term of 'men', or as a part of their husbands, rather than asking how and when the relationship between the sexes explans social structure and behaviour.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Contributors

Preface

Sexual Divisions and Society

In the Production of their Lives, Men (?) ... Sex and Gender in British Community Studies

Kin, Clients, and Accomplices: Relationships among Women in Morocco

Continuities and Discontinuities in Marriage and Divorce

French Judicial Ideology in Working-class Divorce

Women: Supporters or Supported?

Finishing School: Some Implications of Sex-segregated Education

'Who Wants Babies?' The Social Construction of 'Instincts'

I May Be a Queer, But At Least I am a Man: Male hegemony and ascribed versus achieved gender

Women's Liberation, Reproduction, and the Technological Fix

'Free-choice Marriage' in China: The Evolution of an Ideal

Men, Women, and Communes

Name Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-351-04293-9

OCLC:

1035762601