The Sexual Division of Labor and Social Control: An Interpretation

Jane Humphries
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Jane Humphries: Cambridge University, England

Review of Radical Political Economics, 1991, vol. 23, issue 3-4, 269-296

Abstract: The paper provides an account of the sexual division of labor across modes of production. Attention is given to the historically specific demands that human reproduction makes on mothers. Analysis of feudalism and early capitalism identifies the need in poor economies to control marriage and childbearing if population is not to run ahead of resources. The sexual division of labor organized work in a way that minimized disruption of traditional controls over family formation.

Date: 1991
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