The Unemployed Man and His Family: The Effect of Unemployment Upon the Status of the Man in Fifty-Nine Families
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Unemployed Man and His Family: The Effect of Unemployment Upon the Status of the Man in Fifty-Nine Families
By (Author) Mirra Komarovsky
Edited by Michael Kimmel
AltaMira Press
AltaMira Press
9th November 2004
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Poverty and precarity
305.906941
Physical Properties
Paperback
186
Width 163mm, Height 228mm, Spine 12mm
313g
Description
Noted sociologist and feminist Mirra Komarovsky interviewed 59 families between 1935-36 to study man's role as economic provider. The result is an unprecedented study of masculinity and depression and the effect of social institutions on the individual.
Author Bio
Mirra Komarovsky was professor emeritus of sociology at Barnard College and Past-President of the American Sociological Association. Michael S. Kimmel teaches at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
