Women's Work Degraded and Devalued

by Kemp, Alice A.

• ISBN13: 9780132036627
• ISBN10: 0132036622
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-07-26
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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

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