Circles and Settings: Role Changes of American Women

Circles and Settings: Role Changes of American Women is an original, comprehensive analysis of changing roles of American women at a time of great upheaval and public, as well as social science, commentary. Using a symbolic interactionist framework, with role seen as a set of negotiated relations, Lopata analyses the roles of wife, mother, kin member (daughter, sister, grandmother) homemaker, job holder in different settings, as well as friend, neighbor, volunteer, and activist. This book comprehensively pulls together all the major involvements of American women using both historical and comparative perspectives to show the evolution of these roles over the last century.

About the author

Helena Znaniecka Lopata is Professor of Sociology at Loyola University of Chicago. She has written many books including Current Widowhood: Myths and Realities, and coedited Friendship in Context.

Product details

• Authors: Helena Znaniecka Lopata
• Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.1994
• EAN: 9780791417676
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1767-6
• No. of pages: 325
• Series: Suny Series in Gender and Soci; Suny Series in Gender and Soci; Suny Gender and Society
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories