Gender

by Ivan Illich

Book Overview

An insightful examination of the different work roles taken by each sex in traditional and modern societies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039471587X
• ISBN13: 9780394715872
• Release Date: February 1985
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Why Should Illich have to bow to feminism

The reviewer who criticized Illich for not making his views compatible with feminism either has an agenda or misses his point. Yes Illich has a deep suspicion of modernity--and feminism is the defining discourse of modernity )or post modernity or whatever). Illich rejects a society in which everyone is a player--a geographic isolate in favor of something John Crowe Ransom and the Agrarians would have admired. Read the Odyssey for example: it is among other things a rule book of civility and societal harmony (and its enemies). The greatest scandal of present day academia and its cousins in the medea is its historical amnesia. Maybe traditional society has something to offer us (and I am curious to know what the reviewer thinks will happen when bacteria become resistant to all antibiotics) It is after all globalism starting from WWI hich has brought us pandemics of flu, aids and diseases yet unknown. The 19199 flue pandemic killed as many people as the plague of 1348. Hey I don't see that we've come that far.