Women's Work Degraded and Devalued

Name: Women's Work Degraded and Devalued
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ISBN: 9780132036627

ISBN-10: 0132036622

ISBN-13: 9780132036627

Edition: 1st 1994

Authors: Alice A. Kemp

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This explicitly feminist look at women and work presents data and research on the wide range of work performed by women in our society, and analyzes it from the distinct theoretical perspective of socialist feminism. It highlights the lives, the work, and the experiences of women of different races and classes through the different types of work they do. Addresses the full range of women's work--productive work done in the labor market, reproductive work performed mainly in the home, and the additional work women perform for the state (by the state regulation of women's lives in the areas of employment and children). Contrasts the socialist feminist perspective with other major theoretical…

Book details

List price: $99.99
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 7/26/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




Introduction



Methodological Treatment of Women: a Feminist Method or a Sociology for Women



Individualist Theories of Women's Work: Views from Functionalism, Neoclassical Economics, Liberal and Liberal Feminism, and Radical Feminism



Structural Theories of Women's Work: Marxism, Marxist Feminism, Socialist Feminism, and Theories of Women of Color



History of Women's Work



Women's Labor Force Participation in the Twentieth Century



Occupational Sex Segregation: Choice or Constraint?



Domestic Labor in the Patriarchal Family



Women's Work and the State



The Plight of Third-World Women and a Feminist Agenda for the Future


Recommended Readings


References