Of Marriage and the Market: Women's Subordination in International PerspectiveKate Young, Carol Wolkowitz, Roslyn McCullagh Monograph of essays identifying elements and mechanisms of women's continuing subordination, social status and sex discrimination - examines sexual division of labour, woman worker issues, human relations, homemaker tasks, unpaid work and men domination in the household and in employment within capitalist and socialist societys. Bibliography pp. 203 to 220 and map. |
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Subsistence Production and Extended Reproduction | 16 |
Households as Natural Units | 49 |
The Politics of Domestic Budgeting | 88 |
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