Gender, Family and Economy : The Triple Overlap

by Rae Lesser Blumberg

• ISBN13: 9780803937567
• ISBN10: 0803937563
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-11-01
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Summary

The 'triple overlap' refers to the link between gender stratification, the household and economic variables. Various parts of this overlap have been extensively studied - for instance the connection between housework and paid work, the relative earning power of men and women and how that translates to household power and the changed social status of women due to increased labour force participation. In this volume, leading sociologists examine this overlap as a totality for the first time. They provide theoretical concepts and new research on how the triple overlap works, both inside the family and within the broader context of society. Their competing conceptions of the interrelationship of gender, family and economy are bolstered by empirical papers which raise questions of culture, class and race within the contexts of both the developed and developing worlds. This should be important reading for all those in gender studies, family studies, sociology and social theory. Six of the articles in this volume were previously published as a Special Issue of Journal of Family Issues.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: THEORIES ILLUMINATING THE `TRIPLE OVERLAP' - Joan Huber

A Theory of Family, Economy, and Gender - Randall Collins

Women and Men in the Class Structure - Janet Saltzman Chafetz

The Gender Division of Labor and the Reproduction of Female Disadvantage

Toward an Integrated Theory

PART TWO: THEORIES AND DATA FROM THIRD WORLD PEOPLES - Rae Lesser Blumberg

Income Under Female Versus Male Control

Hypotheses from a Theory of Gender Stratification and Data from the Third World - Diane L Wolf

Female Autonomy, the Family, and Industrialization in Java - Cathy A Rakowski

Gender, Family, and Economy in a Planned, Industrial City

The Working and Lower Class Households of Ciudad Guayana - Evelyn Nakano Glenn

Racial Ethnic Women's Labor

The Intersection of Race, Gender and Class Oppression - Rae Lesser Blumberg

Afterword

Racial Ethnic Women's Labor - Factoring in Gender Stratification

PART THREE: CONTRASTING CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF THE HOUSEHOLD - Judith Treas

The Common Pot or Separate Purses? A Transaction Cost Interpretation - Immanuel Wallerstein and Joan Smith

Households as an Institution of the World-Economy

PART FOUR: GENDER, MONEY, AND HOUSEWORK - Marion Tolbert Coleman

The Division of Household Labor

Suggestions for Future Empirical Consideration and Theoretical Development - Philip Blumstein and Pepper Schwartz

Money and Ideology

Their Impact on Power and the Division of Household Labor - Sarah Fenstermaker, Candace West and Don Zimmerman

Gender Inequality

New Conceptual Terrain