Gender, Family and Economy

Rae Lesser Blumberg - University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA, University of California, San Diego, USA, University of Wisconsin, USA

Volume: 125

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312 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

The 'triple overlap' refers to the link between gender stratification, the household and economic variables. In this volume, leading sociologists examine this overlap as a totality, providing 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. Six of the articles in this volume were previously published as a Special Issue of Journal of Family Issues.

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

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Rae Lesser Blumberg

Rae Lesser Blumberg is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Much of her academic work involves her general theory of gender stratification and theory of gender and development. In both, women’s versus men’s relative economic power (defined as control of income and other assets) is posited as the key—but not sole—factor affecting gender equality and many other development-related outcomes. She has worked in virtually all sectors of development, in 48 countries since Peace Corps in Venezuela, with the World Bank, USAID, UNESCO, UNDP and other UN agencies, the African Development Bank, Inter... More About Author

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Gender, Family and Economy
The Triple Overlap

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Rae Lesser Blumberg