The 'triple overlap' refers to the link between gender stratification, the household and economic variables. In this volume, leading sociologists examine this overlap as a totality, providing theoretical concepts and new research on how the triple overlap works, both inside the family and within the broader context of society. Their competing conceptions of the interrelationship of gender, family and economy are bolstered by empirical papers which raise questions of culture, class and race within the contexts of both the developed and developing worlds. Six of the articles in this volume were previously published as a Special Issue of Journal of Family Issues.The 'triple overlap' refers to the link between gender stratification, the household and economic variables. In this volume, leading sociologists examine this overlap as a totality, providing theoretical concepts and new research on how the triple overlap works, both inside the family and within the broader context of society. Their competing conceptions of the interrelationship of gender, family and economy are bolstered by empirical papers which raise questions of culture, class and race within the contexts of both the developed and developing worlds. Six of the articles in this volume were previously published as a Special Issue of Journal of Family Issues.PART ONE: THEORIES ILLUMINATING THE `TRIPLE OVERLAP' A Theory of Family, Economy, and Gender - Joan Huber Women and Men in the Class Structure - Randall Collins The Gender Division of Labor and the Reproduction of Female Disadvantage - Janet Saltzman Chafetz Toward an Integrated Theory PART TWO: THEORIES AND DATA FROM THIRD WORLD PEOPLES Income Under Female Versus Male Control - Rae Lesser Blumberg Hypotheses from a Theory of Gender Stratification and Data from the Third World Female Autonomy, the Family, and Industrializationl–