{"product_id":"womens-work-mens-property-the-origins-of-gender-and-class-paperback","title":"Women's Work, Men's Property: The Origins of Gender and Class - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephanie Coontz\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003ePeta Henderson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 18, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42129997037703,"sku":"9780860911128","price":28.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/70afe69185d4d9dadbaed55b1c63b81a.webp?v=1732607444","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/womens-work-mens-property-the-origins-of-gender-and-class-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}