The changing position of women in family and society : : a cross-national comparison / / edited with an introduction by Eugen Lupri.

• Superior document: International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; Volume XXXIV
• TeilnehmendeR: Lupri, Eugen,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : E. J. Brill,, [1983]; ©1983
• Year of Publication: 1983
• Language: English
• Series: International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; Volume XXXIV.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (478 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Preface -- I. INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Changing Positions of Women and Men in Comparative Perspective -- II. WOMEN IN CAPITALIST COUNTRIES -- A. NORTH AMERICA -- 2. The Changing Roles of Canadian Women in Family and Work: An Overview -- 3. A Comparative View on the Changing Position of Women in the United States -- B. EUROPE -- 4. The Position of Women in the Netherlands: Marginal Change -- 5. Female Marital Behaviour in French Society -- 6. The Position of Austrian Women in the Family: Some Data, Many Questions, and a Few Interpretations -- 7. The Changing Role of Women: The Case of Italy -- 8. Changing Sex Roles in the Greek Family and Society -- C. ASIA -- 9. The Changing Status and Role of Women in Japan -- III. WOMEN IN SCANDINAVIAN AND SOCIALIST COUNTRIES -- A. SCANDINAVIA -- 10. The Changing Role of Swedish Women in Family and Society -- 11. Economic and Family Roles of Men and Women in Northern Europe: A Historical and Cross-National Comparison -- B. EASTERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPE -- 12. Soviet Women in Family and Society -- 13. Women and the Family in Poland -- 14. Women in Czechoslovakia -- 15. Change in the System of Social Power: Conditions for the Social Equality of Women in Yugoslavia -- IV. WOMEN IN AFRICA -- 16. Women's Roles and Conjugal Family Systems in Ghana -- 17. The Changing Position of Black Women in South Africa -- V. EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF SEX ROLE BEHAVIOUR -- 18. Economic Recession and Swiss Women's Attitudes Towards Marital Role Segregation -- 19. Egalitarianism in Marriage? Graduate Education and the Sexual Division of Labour in the Canadian Family -- 20. Wife and/or Worker: Sex Role Concepts of Canadian Female Students -- 21. The Industrialization of Housework -- Contributors -- Index -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

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