The Sex Factor: How Women Made the West Rich

by Victoria Bateman

Book Overview

Why did the west become so rich? Why is inequality on the rise? How 'free' should markets be? And what does sex have to do with it?

In this passionate and skilfully argued book, leading feminist Victoria Bateman shows how we can only understand the burning economic issues of our time if we put sex and gender - 'the sex factor' - at the heart of the picture. Spanning the globe and drawing on thousands of years of history, Bateman weaves rigorous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509526773
• ISBN13: 9781509526772
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"