Women’s Work, Men’s Property
Subtitle: The Origins of Gender and Class
By: edited by Stephanie Coontz and Peta Henderson.
Contributors: Coontz, Stephanie.; Henderson, Peta, 1937-
Publisher: Verso; Verso Books
Published: 1986
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Sex role; Sex discrimination against women -- History; Social evolution
Notes: Bibliography: p. [207]-213.
"Distributed in the USA and Canada by Schocken Books"--Jacket.
Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: In the beginning / Lila Leibowitz; title: The dawn of lineage societies / Nicole Chevillard and Sébastien Leconte; title: Property forms, political power, and female labour in the origins of class and state societies / Stephanie Coontz and Peta Henderson; title: Slavery and women / Nicole Chevillard and Sébastien Leconte; title: The processes of women's subordination in primitive and archaic Greece / Monique Saliou.