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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495959303321

Autore

Johnson Miriam M

Titolo

Strong mothers, weak wives : the search for gender equality

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : University of California Press, 1988

ISBN

0-520-35259-9

0-520-90853-8

0-585-32101-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Disciplina

305.4/890655

Soggetti

Wives - Psychology

Mothers - Psychology

Sex role

Sex differences (Psychology)

Dominance (Psychology)

Psychosexual Development

Parents

Human Rights

Marital Status

Identification, Psychological

Family Characteristics

Personality Development

Nuclear Family

Social Control, Formal

Psychoanalytic Theory

Defense Mechanisms

Persons

Personality

Demography

Socioeconomic Factors

Health Care Economics and Organizations

Family

Sociology

Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms

Named Groups

Psychological Theory

Population Characteristics

Psychology, Social



Delivery of Health Care

Social Sciences

Psychiatry and Psychology

Psychological Phenomena and Processes

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena

Women's Rights

Marriage

Gender Identity

Mothers

Sociology & Social History

Family & Marriage

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Sommario/riassunto

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.