Women, the Family, and Policy: A Global Perspective - Paperback

by Esther Ngan-Ling Chow (Editor), Catherine White Berheide (Editor)

The authors highlight how structural circumstances in countries with various degrees of industrialization are associated with specific policies. The analyses of women's experiences reveal the variety of ways in which private patriarchy in families combines with public patriarchy in economies and states to create a system of domination which subordinates women. The authors detail how gender is constructed under specific political, economic, and cultural circumstances, and seek to understand how state policies with differing sensitivities to women's issues have produced mixed outcomes for women and their families in the process of economic development.

Author Biography

Esther Ngan-ling Chow is Professor of Sociology at The American University. Catherine White Berheide is Associate Professor of Sociology at Skidmore College.