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Examines the problematic and divisive attitudes which bourgeois and socialist feminists take to the question of the links between patriarchy and capitalism and the importance of class conflict as a major cause of women's subordination.

The concept of medicalization suggests that a wider range of behaviors is becoming defined as legitimate for medical intervention. Through a comparison of the arrest rates of mental patients released during 1968 and 1975 with the general population rates, the relevance of this process to criminal behavior is examined. In both years the arrest rates for the patient groups exceeded those of the general population, these higher rates being explained by the increasing number of patients with prior police records. Patients without prior arrests had lower arrest rates after release than the general population for all crime categories except property crimes. Comparison of our data with data gathered on patients released in 1946-47 shows that over a 30-year period the proportion of males admitted to psychiatric facilities with police records has steadily and consistently increased. These findings are discussed within the framework of the increasing medicalization of society, with particular concern for adapting this concept to changes resulting from administrative pressures where corresponding changes in ideology are absent.

This research investigates the relationship between stress and the self-reported incidence and prevalence of physical illness and emotional disorders in a sample of middle-aged, working-class men during the recovery period of a natural disaster. Hypotheses concerning the illness behavior of respondents who had and who had not experiencedflooding of their housing unit were tested. The research design entailed personal interviews with a stratified, multistage probability sample of 91 men in two upstate Pennsylvania communitiesflooded in June 1972. In addition to answering questions contained in an interview schedule, all respondents completed the Schedule of Recent Experience and the Gurin Symptom Checklist. Although there were no significant differences in the number and nature of the illnesses experienced by the flood and non-flood respondents, there were significant differences in the duration of illness and self-perceived influence of the flood on the health of the two subsamples of respondents.