Women's Work : Development & the Division of Labor by Gender

Safa, Helen I.; Leacock, Eleanor B.

ISBN 10: 0897890361 / ISBN 13: 9780897890366

Editore: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, Inc., Massachusetts, 1986

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300 pages. Very clean straight book with no marks or underlining. Includes appendix of short biographies of the 18 authors who contributed to this work. Leacock and Safa focus on a common there--that it is necessary to examine the division of labor by sex in order to understand the underlying structure of gender and of women's status. Changes of any magnitude require a full analsis of the basis for women's oppression, and of its relatin to the present world crisis and military build-up. Codice articolo 4526

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Titolo: Women's Work : Development & the Division of...

Casa editrice: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, Inc., Massachusetts

Data di pubblicazione: 1986

Legatura: Trade Paperback

Condizione: Near Fine

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Significant because [it] traces the development process from the non-industrial societies to present-day socialist nations, includes scholars from the first and third worlds, and provides data for a comparative analysis of structural changes in gender relations, links production and reproduction, and redefines work to encompass women's `invisible' work.

Gender and Society

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Book by Leacock Eleanor