Gendered Community
Author | : Penny A. Weiss |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1995-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780814792889 |
ISBN-13 | : 081479288X |
Rating | : 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Download or read book Gendered Community written by Penny A. Weiss and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weiss (political science, Purdue U.) wades through the tangled prose and ideas of the 18th-century French philosopher to resolve some of his male-female role contradictions. She finds that his gender-based division of labor was designed to make everyone dependent on the whole society, rather than to relegate women to a subordinate role, but that the actual arrangements he suggests are based on a purely antifeminist culture. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR