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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.
Income Under Female versus Male Control: Hypotheses from a Theory of Gender Stratification and Data from the Third World
Income Under Female versus Male Control: Hypotheses from a Theory of Gender Stratification and Data from the Third World
The relationships among control of income, marital power, and gender stratification in the capitalist societies of the “First World” raise questions that provide food for academic thought. In contrast, in much of the Third World, especially sub-Saharan Africa, the consequences of their interconnections involving food are not metaphorical but literal. Relative male/female control of income and marital power, I propose, affects outcomes that run the gamut from how much food is available to the children in a family to how much food is grown in a country. In ...
