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Sexual Divisions and Society

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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.

Title Sexual Divisions and Society : Process and Change / edited by Diana Leonard Barker, Sheila Allen.
Publisher London : Routledge
Creation Date 1976
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content 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 genderWomen'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.
Extent 1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations
Language English
National Library system number 997012410626505171
MARC RECORDS
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