1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451681603321

Autore

Ryan Mary P

Titolo

Mysteries of sex [[electronic resource] ] : tracing women and men through American history / / Mary P. Ryan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2006

ISBN

1-4696-0605-4

0-8078-7668-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (445 p.)

Disciplina

305.420973

Soggetti

Sex role - United States - History

Women - United States - History

Men - United States - History

Feminism - United States - History

Electronic books.

United States History

United States Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-408) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; PART I. MAKING SEX IN AMERICA: 1500–1900; Chapter 1. Where Have the Corn Mothers Gone?: Americans Encounter the Europeans; Chapter 2. Who Baked That Apple Pie and When?: How Domesticity Conquered American Culture; Chapter 3. How Did Race Get Colored?: Gender and Sexuality in the American South; PART II. DIVIDING THE PUBLIC REALM; Chapter 4. What Is the Sex of Citizenship?: Engendering the American Political Tradition from the Revolution to the New Deal; PART III. WOMEN REMAKE GENDER IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Chapter 5. How Do You Get from Home to Work to Equity?: 1900–1960Chapter 6. Where Does Sex Divide?: Feminism, Sexuality, and the Structures of Gender since 1960; Chapter 7. Where in the World Is the Border between Male and Female?: Immigration and Generation in the Twentieth Century; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z;

Sommario/riassunto

Offering a synthesis of American history, this work demonstrates how



the meaning of male and female has evolved, changed, and varied over a span of many years and across major social and ethnic boundaries. It recounts the construction of a modern gender regime that sharply separated male from female and created modes of exclusion and inequity.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450911203321

Titolo

The Measurement of saving, investment, and wealth [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Robert E. Lipsey and Helen Stone Tice

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1989

ISBN

1-281-43101-X

9786611431013

0-226-48471-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (876 p.)

Collana

Studies in income and wealth ; ; v. 52

Altri autori (Persone)

LipseyRobert E

TiceHelen Stone

Disciplina

330 s

339.4/3

Soggetti

Saving and investment

Wealth

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Research in Income and Wealth."

"Papers and discussion presented at the Conference on the Measurement of Saving, Investment, and Wealth held in Baltimore, Maryland, 27-28 March 1987"--p. xi.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Prefatory Note -- Introduction -- 1 Present NIPA Saving Measures: Their Characteristics and Limitations -- 2 Measuring Household Saving: Recent Experience from the Flow-of-Funds Perspective -- 3 Flow-of-Funds and National Income and Product Account Savings Estimates in Latin America -- 4 Aggregate U. S. Private Saving: Conceptual Measures and Empirical Tests -- 5 The



Accumulation of Human and Nonhuman Capital, 1948 -84 -- 6 Government Saving, Capital Formation, and Wealth in the United States, 1947-85 -- 7 The Theory and Measurement of the Nominal Output of Banks, Sectoral Rates of Savings, and Wealth in the National Accounts -- 8 World Payments Imbalances and U.S. Statistics -- 9 Year- Apart Estimates of Household Net Worth from the Survey of Income and Program Participation -- 10 Survey Estimates of Wealth: An Assessment of Quality -- 11 Using Panel Data to Assess the Bias in Cross-sectional Inferences of Life-Cycle Changes in the Level and Composition of Household Wealth -- 12 The Wealth of the Aged and Nonaged, 1984 -- 13 Pension Wealth, Age-Wealth Profiles, and the Distribution of Net Worth -- 14 The Importance of Gifts and Inheritances among the Affluent -- 15 Long-Term Trends in U.S. Wealth Inequality: Methodological Issues and Results -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

There is probably no concept other than saving for which U.S. official agencies issue annual estimates that differ by more than a third, as they have done for net household saving, or for which reputable scholars claim that the correct measure is close to ten times the officially published one. Yet despite agreement among economists and policymakers on the importance of this measure, huge inconsistencies persist. Contributors to this volume investigate ways to improve aggregate and sectoral saving and investment estimates and analyze microdata from recent household wealth surveys. They provide analyses of National Income and Product Account (NIPA) and Flow-of-Funds measures and of saving and survey-based wealth estimates. Conceptual and methodological questions are discussed regarding long-term trends in the U.S. wealth inequality, age-wealth profiles, pensions and wealth distribution, and biases in inferences about life-cycle changes in saving and wealth. Some new assessments are offered for investment in human and nonhuman capital, the government contribution to national wealth, NIPA personal and corporate saving, and banking imputation.