Preface
Introduction
The Classical Period: Nineteenth Century Sociology
Auguste Comte (1798-1857) on Women in Positivist Society
Harriett Martineau (1802-1876) on American Women
Bebel, August (1840-1913) on Women and Socialism
Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) on the Division of Labor and Interests in Marriage
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) on the Rights and Status of Women
Lester Frank Ward (1841-1913) on the Condition of Women
Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) on the Voices of Women
Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) on Dress as Pecuniary Culture
The Progressive Era: Early Twentieth Century Sociology
Georg Simmel (1858-1918) on Conflict between Men and Women
Mary Roberts (Smith) Coolidge (1860-1945) on the Socialization of Girls
Anna Garlin Spencer (1851-1932) on the Woman of Genius
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) on the Economics of Private Household Work
Leta Stetter Hollingworth (1886-1939) on Compelling Women to Bear Children
Alexandra Kolontai (1873-1952) on Women and Class
Edith Abbott (1876-1957) on Women in Industry
1920s and 1930s: Institutionalizing the Discipline, Defining the Canon
Du Bois, W. E. B. (1868-1963) on the Damnation of Women
Edward Alsworth Ross (1866-1951) on Masculinism
Anna Garlin Spencer (1851-1932) on Husbands and Wives
Robert E. Park (1864-1944) and Ernest W. Burgess (1886-1966) On Sex Differences
William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) on Women’s Natural Roles
Sophonisba P. Breckinridge (1866-1948) on Women as Workers and Citizens
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) on the Cultural Basis of Sex Difference
Willard Walter Waller (1899-1945) on Rating and Dating
The 1940s: Questions about Women’s New Roles
Edward Alsworth Ross (1866-1951) on Sex Conflict
Alva Myrdal (1902-1986) on Women’s Conflicting Roles
Talcott Parsons (1902-1979) on Sex in the United StatesSocial Structure
Joseph Kirk Folsom (1893-1960) on Wives’ Changing Roles
Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) on Democracy and Race, an American Dilemma
Mirra Komarovsky (1905-1998) on Cultural Contradictions of Sex Roles
Robert Staughton Lynd (1892-1970) on Changes in Sex Roles
The 1950s: Questioning the Paradigm
Viola Klein (1908-1971) on the Feminine Stereotype
Mirra Komarovsky (1905-1998), Functional Analysis of Sex Roles
Helen Mayer Hacker on Women as a Minority Group
William H. Whyte (1917-1999) on the Corporate Wife
Talcott Parsons and Robert F. Bales on the Functions of Sex Roles
Alva Myrdal (1902-1986) and Viola Klein (1908-1971) on Women’s Two Roles
Helen Mayer Hacker on the New Burdens of Masculinity
