Gender↗
by Ivan Illich
Illich's 1982 critique of how industrial society replaced vernacular gender with economic sex
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Acknowledgements
3 minAcknowledgements id="acknowledgements">Acknowledgements # 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...
I. Sexism and Economic Growth
11 minI. Sexism and Economic Growth id="i-sexism-and-economic-growth">I.
II. Economic Sex
27 minII. Economic Sex id="ii-economic-sex">II. Economic Sex # Proof of economic discrimination against women does not have to be established here. The evidence is already overwhelming.
III. Vernacular Gender
15 minIII. Vernacular Gender id="iii-vernacular-gender">III. Vernacular Gender # Outside industrial societies, unisex work is the rare exception, if it exists at all.
IV. Vernacular Culture
14 minIV. Vernacular Culture id="iv-vernacular-culture">IV. Vernacular Culture # Tools are intrinsic to social relationships.
V. Gender Domains and Vernacular Milieu
24 minV. Gender Domains and Vernacular Milieu id="v-gender-domains-and-vernacular-milieu">V. Gender Domains and Vernacular Milieu # Gender is vernacular.
VI. Gender Through Time
24 minVI. Gender Through Time id="vi-gender-through-time">VI. Gender Through Time # Culture evolves just as language does; it implies a sui generis evolution.
VII. From Broken Gender to Economic Sex
13 minVII. From Broken Gender to Economic Sex id="vii-from-broken-gender-to-economic-sex">VII.