Strong mothers, weak wives : the search for gender equality / Miriam M. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Miriam M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wives--Psychology.

Wives.

Mothers--Psychology.

Mothers.

Sex role.

Sex differences (Psychology).

Dominance (Psychology).

Physical Description:

xii, 347 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1988]

Summary:

A leading theorist in the sociology of sex and gender, Miriam Johnson establishes as her starting point the belief that inequality is not inherent or inevitable in heterosexual relations. In "Strong Mothers, Weak Wives" she develops this notion by examining how gender differences get translated into gender inequalities and how this process relates to the structure of the nuclear family and to the social organization of modern societies.

Contents:

2. The Question of Difference 16

3. Defining Difference: Psychological Perspectives 44

4. Women's Mothering and Male Misogyny 71

5. Mothers versus the Male Peer Group 96

6. Fathers and Difference 128

7. Freud, the Oedipus Complex, and Feminism 157

8. Psychoanalysis and the Making of Mothers into Wives 186

9. Women as Wives: Cultural and Historical Variations 221

10. Mothers as Wives in an Individualistic Society 246.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 271-327.

ISBN:

0520061616

0520061624

OCLC:

16951141