Gender

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. Guide to Titled Footnotes Acknowledgments I. Sexism and Economic Growth II. Economic Sex III. Vernacular Gender IV. Vernacular Culture V. Gender Domains and Vernacular Milieu VI. Gender through Time VII. From Broken Gender to Economic Sex Index By Ivan Illich. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.