Gender & culture (Google eBook)

Transaction Publishers, 1979 - Social Science - 116 pages

Based on a study of the Israeli kibbutz movement, Gender and Culture discusses the differences in male and female orientations to marriage, the family, and work. Spiro describes the counterrevolution in the kibbutz movement as it evolved over a quarter century period. He addresses questions concerning the perennial issue of the universal and the particular in female (and male) psychology. A special feature of this book is its historical and anthropological approach. Studying the same community after a twenty-five-year interval enables readers to observe the children of the first study as adults in the follow-up study.

Melford E. Spiro is the author.

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Really interesting study of life in an Israeli kibbutz, which may or may not interest other people :)

Contents

• The ideology of female liberation: 4
• The vicissitudes of institutional change: 16
• The reality of sexual equality: 47
• The determinants of the counterrevolution: 62
• Conclusions: 98
• Index: 116

About the author

Melford E. Spiro is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, where he founded the anthropology department in 1968. Before that he taught at Harvard University where he founded the anthropology department. Among his works are Gender and Culture, Oedipus in the Trobriands, and Culture and Human Nature.

Melford E. Spiro is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, where he founded the anthropology department in 1968. Before that he taught at Harvard University where he founded the anthropology department. Among his works are Gender and Culture, Oedipus in the Trobriands, and Culture and Human Nature.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Gender & culture
• Contributor: Melford E. Spiro
• Edition: 2, reprint
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers, 1979
• ISBN: 1412824338, 9781412824330
• Length: 116 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science / General; Social Science / Jewish Studies; Social Science / Sociology / General