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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.
Gender, Family, and Economy in a Planned, Industrial City: The Working- and Lower-Class Households of Ciudad Guayana
Gender, Family, and Economy in a Planned, Industrial City: The Working- and Lower-Class Households of Ciudad Guayana
The ideology of the household as a private, cohesive unit synonymous with the patriarchal nuclear family is pervasive in contemporary Western cultures, even where a significant proportion of the population has living arrangements that don't conform to expectations. As Blumberg (this volume) points out, mainstream development policy (which is based on Western neoclassical economics) not coincidentally tends to “treat the household as a monolithic and unitary entity”—a “black box” where income is pooled and “resources, work, and information get distributed in some fashion.”
When the patriarchal ideology already firmly rooted in the less ...
