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Women In The Modern World - Their Education And Their Dilemmas

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Mirra Komarovsky was professor emeritus of sociology at Barnard College and Past-President of the American Sociological Associaiton. Michael S. Kimmel teaches at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Klappentext In Women in the Modern World, noted feminist and sociologist Mirra Komarovsky begins with a consideration of biology. Reflecting on these now-familiar arguments that the natural biological differences between women and men dictate different social roles, Komarovsky demolishes these arguments by carefully reviewing studies that find sex differences in cognitive abilities, achievement, and psychological predispositions. In successive chapters, Komarovsky explores how differential socialization produces the differences that we think we observe between women and men, and how gender inequality disfigures the lives of women, men, and the relationships between them. One chapter examines how it plays out among college students at Barnard in the first college generation after the Second World War. Many of these bright and ambitious women feel trapped between their talents and the constraints of feminine domesticity mapped out for them by social expectations. Successive chapters examine the costs of choosing either alternative. Full-time homemakers feel, at best, overworked and undervalued, and at worst resentful and bitter. Many regret the "painful reorganization of life," and long, instead "for the relinquished occupation." It is this longing, she argues that leads so many women to "flit from one evanescent interest to another, arriving at late or middle age without anything that would given meaning or continuity to their lives." Zusammenfassung Reflecting on arguments that the natural biological differences between women and men dictate different social roles! this title demolishes these arguments by reviewing studies that find sex differences in cognitive abilities! achievement! and psychological predispositions. ...

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Authors Mirra Komarovsky, Mirra/ Kimmel Komarovsky
Publisher Rowman and Littlefield
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 15.07.2004
 
EAN 9780759107281
ISBN 978-0-7591-0728-1
No. of pages 319
Dimensions 152 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
Series Classics in Gender Studies
Classics in Gender Studies Ser
Classics in Gender Studies
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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