Summary
Contents
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.
Introduction: The “Triple Overlap” of Gender Stratification, Economy, and the Family
Introduction: The “Triple Overlap” of Gender Stratification, Economy, and the Family
This book brings together the work of a diverse and exciting array of social scientists who touch all three sides of an important but relatively neglected triangle. This is the intersection of gender stratification and economic variables with, and within, the family or household. The effort began with a special issue of the Journal of Family Issues (Vol. 9, No. 1, March 1988) that I edited. Six of the chapters, by Janet Chafetz, Marion Coleman, Randall Collins, Joan Huber, Diane Wolf, and myself, are from that issue. The remainder were written or adapted for this volume.
All the chapters provide new theory and/or data on ...
