Title: Sexual stratification :
Authors: Schlegel, Alice.
Date: 1977
Publisher: Columbia University Press,
Physical description: xix, 371 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: G
Abstract: "The assumption of universal male dominance is called into question in Sexual Stratification, which presents empirical evidence for its absence. These fourteen original papers, plus an introduction and overview by the author, are case studies that include societies where male dominance predominates, such as Sicily, through societies in which dominance is qualified, such as Yuruba, to more egalitarian societies, such as the Bontoc and the Israeli kibbutz. Stratification is examined empirically in both traditional and modern societies and theoretically in terms of power and autonomy in economic and social structures. In addition, an assessment is made of the role ideology plays in establishing norms for sex roles and statuses."--Book jacket.
Contents: Toward a theory of sexual stratification / Alice Schlegel -- Bridging the gap between the sexes in Moroccan legal practice / Daisy H. Dwyer -- Illusion and reality in Sicily / Constance Cronin -- Caste differences between Brahmin and Non-Brahmin women in a southern Bantu societies / Denise O'Brien -- Agitation for change in the Sudan / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban -- The Iyalobe in the traditional Yoruba political system / Bolanle Awe -- Economic activity and marriage among Iviorian urban women / Barbara C. Lewis -- The impact of modernization on women's position in the family in Ghana / Audrey C. Smock -- Women, work, and power in modern Yugoslavia / Bette Denich -- Male and female in Hopi thought and action / Alice Schlegel -- Mechanistic cooperation and sexual equality amoung the western Bontoc / Albert S. Bacdayan -- Social inequality and sexual status in Barbados / Constance Sutton and Susan Makiesky-Barrow -- Ecological antecedents and sex-role consequences in traditional and modern Israeli subculture / Nancy Datan -- An overview / Alice Schlegel.
Subject headings (LCSH): Sex role.; Women--Social conditions.