Based on a study of the Israeli kibbutz movement, Gender and
Culture discusses the differences in male and female orientations
to marriage, the family, and work. Spiro describes the
counterrevolution in the kibbutz movement as it evolved over a
quarter century period. The kibbutz Spiro first studied, Kiryat
Yedidim, was thirty years old at the time, and he returned there
twenty-five years later. Spiro initially found that the pioneers of
the kibbutz movement, in their attempt to implement their vision of
a society based on sexual equality, had created a revolution in the
character of marriage, the structure of the family, patterns of
child rearing, and the sexual division of labor.
The counterrevolution he found twenty-five years later was no
less fascinating: a return to certain important features of the
prerevolutionary forms of these social institutions. This return to
tradition has been the work primarily of the young women who, born
and raised in the kibbutz, had been inculcated with the
revolutionary ideology of the kibbutz pioneers. Studying the same
community after a twenty-five-year interval enables readers to
observe the children of the first study as adults in the follow-up
study. This longitudinal dimension provides the most important
basis for the interpretations offered in Gender and Culture. A new
introduction discusses additional, even more radical changes that
have occurred since the book's original publication in 1979,
situating the kibbutz experience in the context of contemporary
gender studies and feminist thought. The book will be of continuing
importance for sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and
women's studies scholars.
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