Gender and the Life Course

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Gender and the Life Course is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on the lives of women and men as they are affected by history, culture, demography, economic and political stratification, and the biopsychological processes that attend maturation and aging. The book covers three major topics. Part I, which examines gender and the life course in broad historical perspective, includes a... Read more

Gender and the Life Course is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on the lives of women and men as they are affected by history, culture, demography, economic and political stratification, and the biopsychological processes that attend maturation and aging. The book covers three major topics. Part I, which examines gender and the life course in broad historical perspective, includes a summary of recent work in biological ecology and primatology, and an analysis of the persistence of cultural and gender differences in role organization in societies undergoing the transition from agrarianism to industrialism. Other essays trace the changes in sources of household income of industrial workers over the life span, and review temporal and gender differences in life span transitions.Part II examines gender differentiation in a variety of contexts: psychological, psychobiologi-cal, and sociological. Alice Rossi's ASA Presidential Address reviews recent work on fathering and mothering, and argues that sociological explanations of such gender differences need supplementation by concepts from evolutionary theory and the neurosciences. Three essays deal with gender and economy: one shows how gender stratification took hold in the early stages of industrialization in France, another demonstrates the persistence of gender stratification in modern economies, the third focuses on ideology in relation to gender and political power.Part III examines various aspects of the aged in contemporary society, including an argument for an jnterpretive social science that uses diverse methods to improve our ability to describe and interpret many facets of the lives of elderly men and women; a review of the methodology used to study changes in the aged population over time; and an overview of existing data sets that permit further cohort and longitudinal analyses of the aged. The final essays review social policies as they affect the elderly, with particular attention to the fact that most very old people are women, and the impact of the greatly expanded life course for family and kin relations.Gender and the Life Course is a state-of-the-art assessment of the best work currently being done' on gender and age a's maturational factors and is essential reading for anyone interested in adult development and gender roles. Read less

I GENDER AND THE LIFE COURSE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 1 Evolutionary Perspectives on Sex Differences in the Higher Primates 2 Age, Gender, and the Demographic Transition: The Life Course in Agrarian Societies 3 The Life Cycle, Savings, and Demographic Adaptation: Some Historical Evidence for the United States and Europe 4 The Demography of Life Span Transitions: Temporal and Gender Comparisons II GENDER DIFFERENTIATION AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS A. Gender and Individual Development 5 The Psychobiology of Gender 6 The Subjective Experience of Life??Span Transitions, B. Gender, Age, and Deviance 7 The Effect of Age and Gender on Deviant Behavior: A Biopsychosocial Perspective 115 C. Gender and the Family 8 Fertility as an Adjustment to Risk 9 Gender and Parenthood D. Gender and the Economy 10 Family, Gender, and Occupation in Industrial France: Past and Present 11 The Work Histories of Women and Men: What We Know and What We Need to Find Out 12 Organizational Barriers to Gender Equality: Sex Segregation of Jobs and Opportunities, E. Gender and the State 13 Gender Politics: Love and Power in the Private and Public Spheres 14 Women and the State: Ideology, Power, and the Welfare State GENDER AND THE LIFE COURSE IN AGING SOCIETIES 15 Interpretive Social Science and Research on Aging, 16 Life??Course Analysis in Social Gerontology: Using Replicated Social Surveys to Study Cohort Differences 17 Aging Policies and Old Women: The Hidden Agenda 18 Women, Men, and the Lengthening Life Course

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Alice S. Rossi (1922-2009) was Harriet Martineau Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a founder of the National Organization of Women. In addition she served as the seventy-fourth president of the American Sociological Association. Some of her works include Gender and the Life Course, Feminists in Politics, and Sexuality Across the Life Course.

Gender and the Life Course

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