Gender and Stratification

Michael Mann is Professor of Sociology at UCLA

"The authors show convincingly how gender can be analysed as an independent basis of social power and differential advantage."Colin Crouch, Times Higher Education Supplement

• Class, Status and Gender / David Lockwood Gender, Class and Stratification: towards a new approach / Sylvia WalbyA crisis in stratification theory?: persons, households/families/lineages, genders, classes and nations / Michael MannClass analysis, gender analysis, and the family / Christine Delphy and Diana LeonardThe relations of technology: what implications for the theories of sex and class? / Cynthia CockburnHouseholds, labour markets and the position of women / Christopher Harris and Lydia MorrisDomestic responsibilities and the structuring of employment / Janet SiltanenWomen and the "service class" / Rosemary CromptonSimilarities of life-style and occupations of women / Ken PrandyIndustrialization, gender segregation and stratification theory / Alison MacEwen ScottThe role of gender in the "first industrial nation": agriculture in England 1780-1850 / Leonore DavidoffGender and Stratification: one central issue or two? / Margaret StaceyGender and Stratification: some general remarks / Frank Bechhofer