{"product_id":"womens-work-mens-property-the-origins-of-gender-and-class-9780860911128","title":"Women's Work, Men's Property: The Origins of Gender and Class","description":"\"To some a book on the \u003ci\u003eorigins\u003c\/i\u003e of sexual inequality is absurd. Male dominance seems to them a universal, if not inevitable, phenomenon that has been with us since the dawn of our species. The essays in this volume offer differing perspectives on the development of sex-role differentiation and sexual inequality, but share a belief that these phenomena \u003ci\u003edid\u003c\/i\u003e have social origins, origins that must be sought in sociohistorical events and processes.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this way Stephanie Coontz and Peta Henderson introduce a book which fills a yawning gap in Marxist and feminist theory of recent years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen's Work, Men's Property\u003c\/i\u003e brings together specialist historical and anthropological skills of a group of American and French feminists to examine the origins of the sexual division of labor, the nature of pre-state kinship societies, the position of women in slave-based societies, and the specific forms taken by the oppression of women in archaic Greece. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMen's Work, Women's Property\u003c\/i\u003e will be welcomed by teachers and students of women's studies and anyone with an interest in the biological, psychological and historical roots of sexual inequality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephanie Coontz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.53d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780860911128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephanie Coontz\u003c\/b\u003e teaches history and family studies at the Evergreen State College, Washington. She is the author (with Peta Henderson) of the highly praised \u003ci\u003eWomen's Work, Men's Property: the Origins of Gender and Class\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40223106007155,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_02ffb4bf-7ba9-4a91-bb1e-5ce210e20dd7.jpg?v=1656682573","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/womens-work-mens-property-the-origins-of-gender-and-class-9780860911128","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}