Women's Work, Men's Property

The Origins of Gender and Class

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Stephanie Coontz, Peta Henderson: Women's Work, Men's Property (Paperback, 1986, Verso Books)

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Published July 15, 1986 by Verso Books.

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978-0-8052-7255-0
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Exploring the sociohistorical roots of gender inequality.

“To some a book on the origins of sexual inequality is absurd. Male dominance seems to them a universal, if not inevitable, phenomenon that has been with us since the dawn of our species. The essays in this volume offer differing perspectives on the development of sex-role differentiation and sexual inequality, but share a belief that these phenomena did have social origins, origins that must be sought in sociohistorical events and processes.”

In this way Stephanie Coontz and Peta Henderson introduce a book which fills a yawning gap in Marxist and feminist theory of recent years.

Women’s Work, Men’s Property brings together specialist historical and anthropological skills of a group of American and French feminists to examine the origins of the sexual division of labor, the nature of pre-state kinship societies, the position of women in slave-based societies, and the specific forms taken …

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Subjects

  • History
  • Women
  • Sex discrimination against wom
  • Sex discrimination against women
  • Sex role
  • Social evolution