Women's Work: Development and the Division of Labor by Gender

by Eleanor Burke Leacock (Editor, Contributor), Helen I. Safa (Editor, Contributor)

Significant because it] traces the development process from the non-industrial societies to present-day socialist nations, includes scholars from the first and third worlds, and provides data for a comparative analysis of structural changes in gender relations, links production and reproduction, and redefines work to encompass women's invisible' work.

"Gender and Society"

Genres: Anthropology, Feminism, Nonfiction

311 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 1986

About the author

Eleanor Leacock was a unique individual whose political life spanned both academics and the world of struggle. She was an anthropologist who was also a Communist Party sympathizer, blacklisted from tenured faculty positions for a number of years until she was finally hired full-time in the City University of New York system in 1972. Leacock always saw her extensive theoretical writing as work in the service of social justice.