TY - BOOK AU - Dillingham,Beth W. AU - Divale,William Tulio AU - Ehrhardt,Anke Α. AU - Garretson,Lucy AU - Hess Buechler,Judith-Maria AU - Hoffer,Carol P. AU - Hoskins,Marilyn W. AU - Isaac,Barry L. AU - Jahan,Rounaq AU - John,Mariam AU - Katona-Apte,Judit AU - Kurian,George AU - Lamphere,Louise AU - Lomax,Alan AU - Lord,Edith Elizabeth AU - Namboze,Josephine M. AU - Newman,Lucile AU - Newton,Niles AU - Nurge,Ethel AU - Poirier,Frank E. AU - Raphael,Dana AU - Robson,John R.K. AU - Rosenfeld,Henry AU - Roy,Manisha AU - Schlegel,Alice AU - Scott Allen,Bettie AU - Vidláková,Olga AU - Wilson,Suzanne F. AU - Yuan,Ying-Ying TI - Being Female: Reproduction, Power, and Change T2 - World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series SN - 9789027975997 AV - GN479.7.I57 1975 .I57 1973 U1 - 301.41/2 PY - 2011///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - Pregnancy KW - Congresses KW - Women KW - Social conditions KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh N1 - I-XIV --; Introduction --; SECTION ONE: REPRODUCTION --; Reproduction: Introductory Notes --; Socialization of Non-Human Primate Females: A Brief Overview --; Prenatal Hormones and Human Behavior: Implications for the Status of Women --; Spontaneous and Induced Abortion in Human and Non-Human Primates --; Birth Rituals in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Some Practical Applications --; The Relevance of Nourishment to the Reproductive Cycle of the Female in India --; Nutrition and Pregnancy --; Defining Marriage Cross-Culturally --; Matrescence, Becoming a Mother, A “New/Old” Rite de Passage --; Matri-Patrilocality and the Birth of the First Child --; Affectivity and Instrumentality in Friendship Patterns among American Women --; An Explanation for Matrilocal Residence --; SECTION TWO: WOMEN AND POWER --; Women and Power: Introductory Notes --; Women and Domestic Power: Political and Economic Strategies in Domestic Groups --; A Note on a Feminine Factor in Cultural History --; Non-Hierarchical, Hierarchical, and Masked Reciprocity in the Arab Village --; Bundu: Political Implications of Female Solidarity in a Secret Society --; Three Styles of Domestic Authority : A Cross-Cultural Study --; A Review of the Women’s Movement in the United States --; American Women in Politics: Culture, Structure, and Ideology --; SECTION THREE: SOCIAL TRENDS --; Social Trends: Introductory Notes --; The Eurogallegas : Female Spanish Migration --; Attitudes towards Reproduction in a Rapidly Changing African Society --; The Concepts of “Femininity” and “Liberation” in the Context of Changing Sex-Roles: Women in Modern India and America --; Vietnamese Women: Their Roles and Their Options --; Changing Roles of Women in Two African Muslim Cultures --; Women and Social Customs within the Family: A Case Study of Attitudes in Kerala, India --; Some Remarks on the Legal Equality between Men and Women --; Biographical Notes --; Index of Names --; Index of Subjects; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110813128 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110813128 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110813128/original ER -