2nd Edition

Gender and Culture Kibbutz Women Revisited

Edited By Wilbur Scott Copyright 1996
170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

Based on a study of the Israeli kibbutz movement, Gender and Culture discusses the differences in male and female orientations to marriage, the family, and work. Spiro describes the counterrevolution in the kibbutz movement as it evolved over a quarter century period. The kibbutz Spiro first studied, Kiryat Yedidim, was thirty years old at the time, and he returned there twenty-five years... Read more
Introduction to the Transaction edition, Foreword by Weston La Barre, Preface, Chapter 1. The ideology of female liberation, Chapter 2. The vicissitudes of institutional change, Chapter 3. The reality of sexual equality, Chapter 4. The determinants of the counterrevolution, Chapter 5. Conclusions, Index

Biography

Melford E. Spiro