Working Class Feminism
A Consideration of the Consequences of Employment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2276118 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Myra Marx Ferree (0000-0002-8070-6569, University of Connecticut, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 173-184 |
| Publication date | 1980-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1980.tb00602.x |
| OpenAlex | W2032420361 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 30 |
The perception of working class women as especially traditional and domestic has tended to obscure the real currents of change within the working class. Their support for feminism has been underestimated because it has been assumed that they lack the personal discontent with traditional roles on which the movement is based. Working class women were surveyed to identify the factors conducive to the adoption of feminist attitudes. Employed women appear to be more feminist than full-time house wivea, even when they are working for reasons of financial exigency rather than personal interest. Some of this effect of employment may be due directly to the different social networks in which the employed women and the housewives participate; some of the effect of employment may also be indirect in that it provides a context in which dissatisfactions may be interpreted politically
Class (philosophy) · Context (archaeology) · Feminism · Feminist movement · Geography · Perception · Political science · Politics · Social class · Sociology · Working class · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Psychology
Families at Work
Predictors of Rank-and-File Feminist Activism
Feminism in a global era
Traditional Ideologies, Nontraditional Lives
The Factors Affecting Sexual Assaults Committed by Strangers and Acquaintances
The Work Attachment of Mothers with Preschool Children
An Intersectional Analysis of Gender and Race for Sexual Minorities Who Engage in Gay and Lesbian Rights Activism
On Theoretical Subtlety, Gender, Class, and Space
Personal Experience, Ideology and Support for Feminism
The Gender Gap in U.S. Presidential Elections
Social support and self-esteem as intervening variables in the relationship between social roles and women's well-being
Dynamics of Theory Change in the Social Sciences
Attitudes toward the Equal Rights Amendment
Routes to a Feminist Orientation Among Women Autoworkers
A rational choice model of wives' employment decisions
Rebirth of feminism
The social psychology of social movements.
From mobilization to revolution
Working-Class Suburb
Family and Social Network (International Behavioural and Social Sciences, Classics from the Tavistock Press)
Politics of Mass Society
Women's Two Roles
Family and Kinship in East London
Theory of collective behavior.
Working-Class Women and Grass-Roots Politics, by Kathleen McCourt
The World of the Urban Working Class
The Sociology of Housework
The New Feminist Movement
U. S. Women's Sex-Role Ideology, 1970
A Woman for President? Changing Responses
Change in U.S. Women's Sex-Role Attitudes, 1964-1974
Are Working Women Really More Satisfied? Evidence from Several National Surveys
Who Has the Power? The Marital Struggle
Working-Class Jobs
Sex Role Attitudes and the Employment of Married Women
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements
The Origins of the Women's Liberation Movement
Mass Society and Political Movements
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,37 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2012 (28) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |