Human Work

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Michael Kimmel SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, Stony Brook U (Foreword by), Mary M. Moynihan (Foreword by)

Overview

Human Work represents the first ground breaking analysis on the equal importance of work in the lives of men and women. Noted feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman maintains the notion that it was "sexuo-economic oppression of women" and not women's biology that kept women from achieving in all areas of work. Accusing men of appropriating certain work as "men's work" and masking the process as a biological locus rather than an exercise in power relations, Gilman asserts that men created an economic dependence that has prevented women from success in the workplace. Introduced by noted scholars Michael Kimmel and Mary Moynihan, Human Work is necessary reading for anyone interested in power and gender structures in the workplace.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780759109056
Publisher:	AltaMira Press
Publication date:	05/18/2005
Series:	Classics in Gender Studies
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.82(w) x 8.46(h) x 1.02(d)

About the Author

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American writer and feminist theorist. Among her works are The Home, His Religion and Hers, and "The Yellow Wallpaper." Michael S. Kimmel teaches at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Mary M. Moynihan teaches at the University of New Hampshire.

Table of Contents

1 Series Editor's Introduction 2 1. Introductory 3 2. Man as a Factor in Social Evolution 4 3. Concept and Conduct 5 4. Some False Concepts 6 5. The Nature of Society (I) 7 6. The Nature of Society (II) 8 7. The Social Soul 9 8. The Social Body 10 9. The Nature of Work (I) 11 10. The Nature of Work (II) 12 11. Specialisation 13 12. Production 14 13. Distribution 15 14. Consumption (I) 16 15. Consumption (II) 17 16. Our Position Today 18 17. The True Position