Preface Introduction The Classical Period: Nineteenth Century SociologyAuguste Comte (1798-1857) on Women in Positivist SocietyHarriett Martineau (1802-1876) on American WomenBebel, August (1840-1913) on Women and SocialismEmile Durkheim (1858-1917) on the Division of Labor and Interests in MarriageHerbert Spencer (1820-1903) on the Rights and Status of WomenLester Frank Ward (1841-1913) on the Condition of WomenAnna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) on the Voices of WomenThorstein Veblen (1857-1929) on Dress as Pecuniary Culture The Progressive Era: Early Twentieth Century SociologyGeorg Simmel (1858-1918) on Conflict between Men and WomenMary Roberts (Smith) Coolidge (1860-1945) on the Socialization of GirlsAnna Garlin Spencer (1851-1932) on the Woman of GeniusCharlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) on the Economics of Private Household WorkLeta Stetter Hollingworth (1886-1939) on Compelling Women to Bear ChildrenAlexandra Kolontai (1873-1952) on Women and ClassEdith Abbott (1876-1957) on Women in Industry 1920s and 1930s: Institutionalizing the Discipline, Defining the CanonDu Bois, W. E. B. (1868-1963) on the Damnation of WomenEdward Alsworth Ross (1866-1951) on MasculinismAnna Garlin Spencer (1851-1932) on Husbands and WivesRobert E. Park (1864-1944) and Ernest W. Burgess (1886-1966) On Sex DifferencesWilliam Graham Sumner (1840-1910) on Womens Natural RolesSophonisba P. Breckinridge (1866-1948) on Women as Workers and CitizensMargaret Mead (1901-1978) on the Cultural Basis of Sex DifferenceWillard Walter Waller (1899-1945) on Rating and Dating The 1940s: Questions about Womens New RolesEdward Alsworth Ross (1866-1951) on Sex ConflictAlva Myrdal (1902-1986) on Womens Conflicting RolesTalcott Parsons (1902-1979) on Sex in the United StatesSocial StructureJoseph Kirk Folsom (1893-1960) on Wives Changing RolesGunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) on Democracy and Race, an American DilemmaMirra Komarovsky (1905-1998) on Cultural Contradictions of Sex RolesRobert Staughton Lynd (1892-1970) on Changes in Sex Roles The 1950s: Questioning the ParadigmViola Klein (1908-1971) on the Feminine StereotypeMirra Komarovsky (1905-1998), Functional Analysis of Sex RolesHelen Mayer Hacker on Women as a Minority GroupWilliam H. Whyte (1917-1999) on the Corporate WifeTalcott Parsons and Robert F.

Bales on the Functions of Sex RolesAlva Myrdal (1902-1986) and Viola Klein (1908-1971) on Womens Two RolesHelen Mayer Hacker on the New Burdens of Masculinity.