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Women's work : degraded and devalued

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 perspectives from sociology and women's studies. Expresses the voices and experiences of women through qualitative research data and excerpts from the creative literature (by and about women, including women of color). Features original tables that describe the contemporary socio-economic standing of women in the U.S. For anyone interested in women's studies, the sociology of women, gender roles, social stratification, women cross-culturally, work and occupations. -- From product description
Print Book, English, ©1994
Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., ©1994
xiii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780132036627, 0132036622
27382102
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 and 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