Gender - Softcover

Illich, Ivan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0930588401 ISBN 13: 9780930588403

Publisher: Heyday Books, 1990

Synopsis

The break with the past, which has been described by others as the transition to a capitalist mode of production, I describe here as the transition from the aegis of gender to the regime of sex.' Ivan Illich insists that we survey attitudes to male and female in both industrial society and its antecedents in order to recover a lost 'art of living'. He argues that only a truly radical scrutiny of scarcity, with special attention in this study to the sexes and society, past and present, can prevent an intensification of this grim predicament.

About this title

About the Author:

Ivan Illich is the author of Celebration of Awareness, Tools for Conviviality, The Right to Useful Unemployment, Energy and Equity, Limits to Medicine, Shadow Work, Gender, H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness, ABC: The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind, Disabling Professions, Deschooling Society and In the Mirror of the Past: Lectures and Addresses 1978-1990.

About this edition

• Publisher: Heyday Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0930588401
• ISBN 13: 9780930588403
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192