| Description |
xxi, 368 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction -- List of contributors -- I. Gender and the life course in historical perspective. Evolutionary perspectives on sex differences in the higher primates / Jane B. Lancaster -- Age, gender, and the demographic transition: the life course in agrarian societies / Sarah LeVine and Robert A. LeVine -- The life cycle, savings, and demographic adaptation: some historical evidence for the United States and Europe / Michael R. Haines -- The demography of life-span transitions: temporal and gender comparisons / Dennis P. Hogan -- II. Gender differentiation and social institutions. Gender and individual development. The psychobiology of gender / Anke A. Ehrhardt -- The subjective experience of life-span transitions / Carol D. Ryff -- Gender, age, and deviance. The effect of age and gender on deviant behavior: a biopyschosocial perspective / Walter R. Gove -- Gender and the family. Fertility as an adjustment to risk / Mead Cain -- Gender and parenthood / Alice S. Rossi -- Gender and the economy. Family, gender, and occupation in industrial France: past and present / Louse A. Tilly -- The work histories of women and men: what we know and what we need to find out / Donald J. Treiman -- Organizational barriers to gender equality: sex segregation of jobs and opportunities / James N. Baron and William T. Bielby -- Gender and the state. Gender politics: love and power in the private and public spheres / Francesca M. Cancian -- Women and the state: ideology, power, and the welfare state / Frances Fox Piven -- III. Gender and the life course in aging societies. Interpretive social science and research on aging / Bernice L. Neugarten -- Life-course analysis in social gerontology: using replicated social surveys to study cohort differences / Richard T. Campbell, Jeffrey Abolafia, and George L. Maddox -- Aging policies and old women: the hidden agendy / Beth B. Hess -- Women, men, and the lengthening life course / Matilda White Riley -- Author index -- Subject index. |
| Note |
"American Sociological Association presidential volume." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and indexes. |
| Subject |
Sex.
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Sex differences.
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Sex role.
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Life cycle, Human.
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Aging -- psychology.
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Gender Identity.
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Identification, Psychological
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Life Change Events.
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| Added Author |
Rossi, Alice S., 1922-2009.
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American Sociological Association.
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| ISBN |
0202303128 (paperback) |
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020230311X |
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