"The authors show convincingly how gender can be analysed as an independent basis of social power and differential advantage."<br /><i>Colin Crouch, Times Higher Education Supplement</i>
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.
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