num_pages: 206
description: 'The break with the past, which has been described by others as the transition to a capitalist mode of production, I describe here as the transition from the aegis of gender to the regime of sex.' Illich insists that we survey attitudes to male &amp; female in both industrial society &amp; its antecedents in order to recover a lost 'art of living'. 'While under any reign of gender women might be subordinate, under any economic regime they are only second sex...both genders are stripped, &amp;, neutered, the man ends up on top.'Guide to Titled FootnotesAcknowledgementsSexism &amp; Economic GrowthEconomic SexVernacular GenderVernacular CultureGender Domains &amp; Vernacular MilieuGender Through TimeFrom Broken Gender to Economic SexIndex
language: English
title: GENDER
titlecomplete: GENDER
genres: Cultural, Gender, Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Feminism, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 128
publisher: Pantheon Books (NY)