Background
Miriam Johnson was born Miriam Massey in Atlanta, Georgia on January 12, 1928 to Leola and Herbert Massey.
( A leading theorist in the sociology of sex and gender, ...)
A leading theorist in the sociology of sex and gender, Miriam Johnson establishes as her starting point the belief that inequality is not inherent or inevitable in heterosexual relations. In Strong Mothers, Weak Wives she develops this notion by examining how gender differences get translated into gender inequalities and how this process relates to the structure of the nuclear family and to the social organization of modern societies.
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Miriam Johnson was born Miriam Massey in Atlanta, Georgia on January 12, 1928 to Leola and Herbert Massey.
Harvard University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
While attending the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, she met Benton Johnson. In 1955 they had a son (Shannon), followed by a daughter (Rebekah) in 1957. She died on November 21, 2007 in Eugene, Oregon at the age of 79 from lung cancer after a short illness.
She was educated at Georgia State College for Women at Milledgeville, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where she studied sociology and met Benton Johnson.
In 1948 she pursued graduate studies at Harvard University"s Department of Social Relations, earning a Doctor of Philosophy. in 1955. She taught at the Women"s College of the University of North Carolina until 1953.
Miriam and Benton moved to Oregon in 1957 when he took up a professorship at the University of Oregon. She returned to sociological work in 1972, with a particular emphasis on gender and family roles.
In 1973, she helped organize the University of Oregon"s Center for the Study of Women in Society, and later served as its director
Her last book, Strong Mothers, Weak Wives, was published in 1988.
( A leading theorist in the sociology of sex and gender, ...)