Before the Second Wave Gender in the Sociological Tradition

by Finlay, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780131848030
• ISBN10: 0131848038
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-06-14
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Before the Second Wave: Gender in the Sociological Tradition,1/e features the writings of both women and men sociologists. Organized historically, this edited volume examines the way classical sociological theorists thought - and wrote - about issues of gender and human society.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Introduction	p. vii
The Classical Period: Nineteenth-Century Sociology	p. 1
Auguste Comte (1798-1857) on Women in Positivist Society	p. 3
Harriett Martineau (1802-1876) on American Women	p. 13
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) on the Rights and Status of Women	p. 21
August Bebel (1840-1913) on Women and Socialism	p. 31
Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) on the Division of Labor and Interests in Marriage	p. 39
Lester Frank Ward (1841-1913) on the Condition of Women	p. 49
Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) on the Voices of Women	p. 63
Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) on Dress as Pecuniary Culture	p. 73
The Progressive Era: Early Twentieth-Century Sociology	p. 79
Georg Simmel (1858-1918) on Conflict between Men and Women	p. 81
Anna Garlin Spencer (1851-1932) on the Woman of Genius	p. 85
Mary Roberts (Smith) Coolidge (1860-1945) on the Socialization of Girls	p. 93
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) on the Economics of Private Housekeeping	p. 101
Edith Abbott (1876-1957) on Women in Industry	p. 107
Leta Stetter Hollingworth (1886-1939) on Compelling Women to Bear Children	p. 113
Alexandra Kollontai (1873-1952) on Women and Class	p. 123
The 1920s and 1930s: Institutionalizing the Discipline, Defining the Canon	p. 129
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) on the "Damnation of Women"	p. 131
Edward Alsworth Ross (1866-1951) on Masculinism	p. 137
Anna Garlin Spencer on Husbands and Wives	p. 141
Robert E. Park (1864-1944) and Ernest W. Burgess (1886-1966) on Sex Differences	p. 155
William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) on Women's Natural Roles	p. 161
Sophonisba P. Breckinridge (1866-1948) on Women as Workers and Citizens	p. 171
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) on the Cultural Basis of Sex Difference	p. 179
Willard Walter Waller (1899-1945) on Rating and Dating	p. 189
The 1940s: Questions about Women's New Roles	p. 199
Edward Alsworth Ross (1866-1951) on Conflict between the Sexes	p. 201
Alva Myrdal (1902-1986) on Women as a Social Problem	p. 207
Talcott Parsons (1902-1979) on Sex in the United States Social Structure	p. 215
Joseph Kirk Folsom (1893-1960) on Wives' Changing Roles	p. 225
Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) on Sex as a Parallel to Race	p. 239
Mirra Komarovsky (1905-1998) on Cultural Contradictions of Sex Roles	p. 247
Robert Staughton Lynd (1892-1970) on Changes in Sex Roles	p. 257
The 1950s: Questioning the Paradigm	p. 261
Viola Klein (1908-1971) on Feminine Stereotypes	p. 263
Margaret Mead on Women, Culture, and Work	p. 273
Mirra Komarovsky on Functional Analysis of Sex Roles	p. 283
Helen Mayer Hacker on Women as a Minority Group	p. 293
William H. Whyte Jr. (1917-1999) on the Corporate Wife	p. 307
Talcott Parsons and Robert F. Bales on the Functions of Sex Roles	p. 313
Alva Myrdal and Viola Klein on Women's Two Roles	p. 319
Helen Mayer Hacker on the Burdens of Masculinity	p. 329
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