The Status Of Women In Preindustrial Societies

Author : Martin King Whyte
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400871810

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The Status of Women in Preindustrial Societies by Martin King Whyte Pdf

How does the status of women in different cultures actually compare with that of men? How does this position vary from one realm—religious, political, economic, domestic, or sexual—to another? To examine these questions, Martin King Whyte draws on a cross-cultural sample of 93 preindustrial societies throughout the world. His analysis describes women's roles in historical perspective, offering a much-needed foundation for feminist scholarship as well as provocative thoughts about the future. To determine why women fare better in some societies than others, Professor Whyte compares data from cultures ranging from small, preliterate hunting bands to the capitals of the Inca and Roman empires. This ethnographic material makes possible a systematic review of the diverse roles of women and also enables the author to test many of the theories advanced to explain the situation of women today. Some of the specific questions considered are: Does male supremacy have its origins in the hunting way of life of our distant ancestors? Are women always inferior to men? Do women have superior status in cultures where they produce much food and thereby play an important economic role? Has the position of women improved over the course of human evolution? Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Martin K. Whyte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783794835

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The Status of Women in Pre-Industrial Societies by Martin K. Whyte Pdf

Author : Lindsey Charles,Lorna Duffin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136248382

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Women and Work in Pre-industrial England by Lindsey Charles,Lorna Duffin Pdf

This book surveys women and work in English society before its transition to industrial capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The time span of the book from 1300 to 1800 allows comparison of women’s work patterns across various phases of economic and social organisation. It was originally published in 1985. Several important themes are highlighted throughout the individual contributions in the book. The most significant is the association between home and work. Not only was trade and manufacture in the pre-industrial period carried out in close proximity to domestic life, many household activities also overlapped with commercial ones. The second key theme is the importance of the local social and economic environment in shaping the nature and extent of women’s work. The book also demonstrates the similarity between certain aspects of women’s work before and after industrialisation. The industrial revolution may have made sexual divisions of labour more apparent but their origins lie firmly in the pre-industrial period.

Author : Andrea Cornwall
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0253345170

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Readings in Gender in Africa by Andrea Cornwall Pdf

This is a comprehensive overview on the existing literature on gender in Africa. It covers areas such as Western perceptions, colonial morality, religion and politics.

Author : Anne Jacobson Schutte,Thomas Kuehn,Silvana Seidel Menchi
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271090955

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Time, Space, and Women’s Lives in Early Modern Europe by Anne Jacobson Schutte,Thomas Kuehn,Silvana Seidel Menchi Pdf

This collection offers a variety of approaches to aspects of women’s lives. It moves beyond men’s prescriptive pronouncements about female nature to women's lived experiences, replacing the singular woman with plural women and illuminating female agency. The contributors show that women’s lives changed over the life course and differed according to region and social class. They also demonstrate that in the early modern period the largely private spaces in women’s lives were not enclosed worlds isolated from the public spaces in which men operated. Contributors to this important collection are leading international scholars and offer strong, substantial, and archival-based research.

Author : William Chester Jordan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512804676

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Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial and Developing Societies by William Chester Jordan Pdf

The active role of women in the labor force is not limited to recent decades, or even to the last century. As William Chester Jordan amply demonstrates in Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial and Developing Societies, women in premodern times played an integral part both as a source of labor and as participants in lending and borrowing. In this wide-ranging and provocative study, the author assesses the overall significance of women's work in medieval and early modern Europe, and in colonial and postcolonial societies. While earlier studies have concentrated on women in agriculture or craftwork, Jordan investigates consumption lending and borrowing among women in the European Middle Ages, female investment in early modern Europe, and, in a final section, the role of African and Caribbean marketwomen and their provision of and access to credit. By viewing the historical situation, Jordan sheds light on contemporary concerns about commercialization, the transformation of rural society, and industrialization. He provides a historical and comparative context for some of the current issues that plague the twentieth-century female work force. By understanding the role of gender in such an important aspect of traditional life as credit relationships, Jordan advances an ongoing reexamination of the issue in general. This work will be of interest to students and scholars of medieval and early modern European, African, and Caribbean history; anthropology; and women's studies.

Author : Katherine S. Newman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1983-12-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521289661

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Law and Economic Organization by Katherine S. Newman Pdf

In this important contribution to the comparative study of legal systems the author examines a sample of some sixty pre-industrial societies from around the world in an attempt to explain why their legal institutions vary.

Author : Valerie Fildes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136211263

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Women as Mothers in Pre-Industrial England by Valerie Fildes Pdf

Originally published in 1990, this book met the rising interest in the subject of women in pre-industrial England, bringing together a group of scholars with diverse and wide-ranging interests; experts in social and medical history, demography, women’s studies, and the history of the family, whose work would not normally appear in one volume. Key aspects of motherhood in pre-industrial society are discussed, including women’s concepts of maternity, the experience of pregnancy, childbirth, and wet nursing, the fostering and disciplining of children, and child abandonment and neglect. This unique book provides a comprehensive introductory overview of its subject, with emphasis on women’s experiences and motives.

Author : Martin King Whyte
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0742507718

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Marriage in America by Martin King Whyte Pdf

The contributors to Marriage in America, inspired by the philosophy of communitarianism, consider an extensive roster of innovative policies and practices that are intended to promote a more supportive atmosphere for American marriages. A wide range of viewpoints are represented, with essays by legal scholars, social scientists, public policy advocates, family activists, and government program administrators. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Daryl M. Hafter
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780271047591

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Women at Work in Preindustrial France by Daryl M. Hafter Pdf

Author : Stuart L Love
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227903216

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Jesus and Marginal Women by Stuart L Love Pdf

This insightful study explores the significance of the interactions between Jesus and 'marginal' women recounted in the Gospel of Matthew. Employing social-scientific models and carefully using comparative data, Love examines the various aspects of this marginality, identifying the attempts of Matthew's Gospel to promote Jesus's vision of a new surrogate family of God that challenges the traditional structures of the household.

Author : Gerhard E. Lenski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469611105

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Power and Privilege by Gerhard E. Lenski Pdf

Power and Privilege seeks to answer the central question of the field of social stratification: Who gets what and why? Using a dialectical view of the development of thought in the discipline, Gerhard Lenski describes the outlines of an emerging synthesis of theories. He shows that perspectives as diverse and contradictory as those of Marx, Spencer, Sumner, Veblen, Mosca, Pareto, Sorokin, Parsons, and Dahrendorf are parts of an evolving and systematic body of theory.

Author : Catherine Farris,Lee Anru,Murray A. Rubinstein,An East Gate Book
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000161434

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Women in the New Taiwan by Catherine Farris,Lee Anru,Murray A. Rubinstein,An East Gate Book Pdf

Taiwan's rapid socio-economic and political transformation has given rise to a gender-conscious middle class that is attempting to redefine the roles of women in society, to restructure relationship patterns, and to organize in groups outside the family unit. This book examines internal psychological processes and external societal processes as the feminist movement in Taiwan expands and new gender roles are explored. The contributors represent a cross section of different disciplines - history, anthropology, and sociology - and different generations of China/Taiwan scholars. They place the issues facing Taiwan's women's movement in social, political, and economic contexts. The book examines gender relations, the role of women in Chinese society, and issues related to women in China throughout history. Feminism and gender relations are also viewed from the context of film and literature. The authors look at the contemporary roles that women play in Taiwan's work force today, how the sexes perceive each other in the workplace, and more.

Author : Shelley Pennington,Belinda Westover
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038542705

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A Hidden Workforce by Shelley Pennington,Belinda Westover Pdf

Author : Carol Meyers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199879182

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Discovering Eve by Carol Meyers Pdf

This groundbreaking study looks beyond biblical texts, which have had a powerful influence over our views of women's roles and worth, in order to reconstruct the typical everyday lives of women in ancient Israel. Meyers argues that biblical sources alone do not give a true picture of ancient Israelite women because urban elite males wrote the vast majority of the scriptural texts and the stories of women in the Bible concern exceptional individuals rather than ordinary Israelite women. Analyzing the biblical material in light of recent archaeological discoveries about rural village life in ancient Palestine, Meyers depicts Israelite women not as submissive chattel in an oppressive patriarchy, but rather as strong and significant actors within their families and society.