The book argues that capitalism, as an economic system, and patriarchy, as a form of gender organization, must be treated as interacting structures in any attem

Fourteen provocative papers on the oppression of women in capitalist countries, along with three articles on the subordinate position of women in two communist

Sociology of Deviance: Differences, Tradition, and Stigma is dedicated to a sociological analysis of deviance, a term reframed to imply differences. Deviance is

Challenging the common masculinist character of criminological research, James W. Messerschmidt develops an elaborate scrutiny of the gender roles that, along w

An outstanding contribution both to socialist feminist theory and to criminology....it will be regarded as a touchstone for such research for many years to come