Gender and Stratification

Michael Mann is Professor of Sociology at UCLA

• Class, Status and Gender / David Lockwood Gender, Class and Stratification: towards a new approach / Sylvia WalbyA crisis in stratification theory?: persons, households/families/lineages, genders, classes and nations / Michael MannClass analysis, gender analysis, and the family / Christine Delphy and Diana LeonardThe relations of technology: what implications for the theories of sex and class? / Cynthia CockburnHouseholds, labour markets and the position of women / Christopher Harris and Lydia MorrisDomestic responsibilities and the structuring of employment / Janet SiltanenWomen and the "service class" / Rosemary CromptonSimilarities of life-style and occupations of women / Ken PrandyIndustrialization, gender segregation and stratification theory / Alison MacEwen ScottThe role of gender in the "first industrial nation": agriculture in England 1780-1850 / Leonore DavidoffGender and Stratification: one central issue or two? / Margaret StaceyGender and Stratification: some general remarks / Frank Bechhofer

"The authors show convincingly how gender can be analysed as an independent basis of social power and differential advantage."Colin Crouch, Times Higher Education Supplement