Women in the Kibbutz - Hardcover

Tiger, Lionel & Shepher, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151983658 ISBN 13: 9780151983650

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975

Synopsis

Dust-jacket reads: How do women act when they are freed from most household chores, economically independent of their husbands, and have been living apart from their children from the time the children were approximately four weeks old? Given equal and similar social circumstances, do men and women behave in the same way -in politics? the economy? warfare? Is equality of the sexes a viable concept, after all? Two important social scientists have asked these questions of and about the women in that provocative human experiment, the Israeli kibbutz. The conclusions are startling. The result is a major and myth-exploding contribu­tion to the literature of feminism and of utopias. Based on the lives of 34,040 kibbutz dwellers, and supported by tables, graphs, interviews, and elabo­rate computerized data, Women in the Kibbutz provides the facts essen­tial for a discussion, which has been until now all too rhetorical, of how women everywhere want to live - a discussion set amid the current con­troversies about sex, gender, nature, and power. Here is a book that may change the very rules of discussion about men and women. Lionel Tiger, author of Men in Groups and co-author of The Imperial Animal, is Professor of An­thropology at Rutgers. Joseph Shepher, a leading analyst of kibbutz life, teaches anthropology at the Uni­versity of Haifa.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0151983658
• ISBN 13: 9780151983650
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 334