Books like Theorizing patriarchy by Sylvia Walby

Judith Lorber examines gender as a social institution, dissecting paradoxes that challenge the binary view of sex, the cultural construction of women, and the persistent inequalities in family, work, and power.

The answer of course is both. In this lucid and subtle investigation, Sylvia Walby, one of the world's leading authorities on gender shows how undoubted increases in opportunity for women in Europe and America have been accompanid by new forms of inequality. She charts changes in women's employment, education and political representation and the complex relations between gender, class and ethnicity, between local conditions and global pressures which together determine the place of women both in the labour market and in the wider social, political and economic world of today. An eagerly awaited successor to Walby's classic Theorising Patriarchy, Transforming Gender will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in how questions of gender remake and are remade by the social and economic conditions in which they occur.

A New Reality: Women in Power and the New Agenda for Change

Introducing modern gender studies, gender theories and gender politics, this text traces the history of Western intellectuals' ideas and discusses current findings on gender differences, inequalities and patterns in the state and corporations.

Andrea Dworkin examines how women and Jews have been scapegoated across history, from the Inquisition to Nazi terror, and explores the ways male dominance shapes their subordination.

A comprehensive study of the historical and social roots of gender inequality, analyzing how the division of labor, kinship, slavery, and ancient Greek society shaped women's oppression.