Gender and Stratification

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the issues involved in the relation between gender and stratification, making it an invaluable text for women's studies. Class, Status and Gender / David Lockwood

Gender, Class and Stratification: towards a new approach / Sylvia Walby

A crisis in stratification theory?: persons, households/families/lineages, genders, classes and nations / Michael Mann

Class analysis, gender analysis, and the family / Christine Delphy and Diana Leonard

The relations of technology: what implications for the theories of sex and class? / Cynthia Cockburn

Households, labour markets and the position of women / Christopher Harris and Lydia Morris

Domestic responsibilities and the structuring of employment / Janet Siltanen

Women and the "service class" / Rosemary Crompton

Similarities of life-style and occupations of women / Ken Prandy

Industrialization, gender segregation and stratification theory / Alison MacEwen Scott

The role of gender in the "first industrial nation": agriculture in England 1780-1850 / Leonore Davidoff

Gender and Stratification: one central issue or two? / Margaret Stacey

Gender and Stratification: some general remarks / Frank Bechhofer

"The authors show convincingly how gender can be analysed as an independent basis of social power and differential advantage."
Colin Crouch, Times Higher Education Supplement Michael Mann is Professor of Sociology at UCLA