Product Description: Despite decades of greater gender awareness at work in Western countries, gender inequality in the executive suites is alive and well. "The Face of the Firm" highlights new critical perspectives on the relationship between hegemonic masculine cultures, gender embodiment, and gender disparities in corporate organizations...read more

This impressive and original study is one of the first books to combine mainstream sociology with feminism in exploring the subject of the professions and power.This is an important addition to the corpus of feminist scholarship... It provides fresh insights into the way in which male power has been used to limit the employment aspirations of women in the middle classes. - Rosemary Crompton, University of Kent

Product Description: This text begins with a review of other theoretical and empirical research on domestic work in Britain and North America. The main conclusion being that previous quantitative studies have been handicapped by inadequate theoretical models of how domestic work is allocated...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This is an account of gender divisions in relation to the world of work and domestic life. The author has combined interview-based research and theoretical development, aiming to provide a significant challenge to existing explanations of segregation...read more

Product Description: This collection provides new insights into British household economic behavior by exploring the frontier between economics and sociology. Drawing on data from the groundbreaking Social Change and Economic Life Initiative, the contributors present a comprehensive analysis of six representative towns to illuminate the ways in which households sustain themselves over time and the role of gender in modern society...read more

Product Description: The concept of 'patriarchy' is one which signals a sharp divide between traditions of feminist thought.  Sylvia Walby attempts to conceptualize 'patriarchy' in a way that takes account not only of the complexity of relationships of gender, but also of the subtleties of the interconnections of patriarchy and capitalism...read more

Product Description: The concept of 'patriarchy' is one which signals a sharp divide between traditions of feminist thought.  Sylvia Walby attempts to conceptualize 'patriarchy' in a way that takes account not only of the complexity of relationships of gender, but also of the subtleties of the interconnections of patriarchy and capitalism...read more