Strong Mothers, Weak Wives: The Search for Gender Equality

By Miriam M. Johnson

Book Overview

A leading theorist in the sociology of sex and gender, Miriam Johnson establishes as her starting point the belief that inequality is not inherent or inevitable in heterosexual relations. In Strong Mothers, Weak Wives she develops this notion by examining how gender differences get translated into gender inequalities and how this process relates to the structure of the nuclear family and to the social organization of modern societies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520061624
• ISBN13: 9780520061620
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"