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Women Cross-Culturally : Change and Challenge / ed. by Ruby Rohrlich-Leavitt.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary SeriesPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1975Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (670 p.) : Num. figs. and tabs. and platesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789027976499
  • 9783110818567
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.41/2
LOC classification:
  • HQ1106 1973 .I57 1975eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-XIV -- SECTION ONE Women in Islam and Africa -- Introduction -- Women in Bangladesh -- The Role of Women in the Development of Culture in Nigeria -- African Women: Identity Crisis? Some Observations on Education and the Changing Role of Women in Sierra Leone and Zaire -- SECTION TWO Women in Latin America -- Introduction -- Female Labor and Capitalism in the United States and Brazil -- Women in Mexico -- The Mayan Woman and Change -- Marital Status and Sexual Identity: The Position of Women in a Mexican Peasant Society -- Lower Economic Sector Female Mating Patterns in the Dominican Republic: A Comparative Analysis -- The Female Domestic Servant and Social Change: Lima, Peru -- Sociocultural Factors Mitigating Role Conflict of Buenos Aires Professional Women -- Life and Labor of the Woman Textile Worker in Mexico City -- Women as Workers: The Experience of the Puerto Rican Woman in the 1930's -- Resistance as Protest; Women in the Struggle of Bolivian Tin-Mining Communities -- SECTION THREE Women in the United States -- Introduction -- The Economic Basis of the Status of Women -- Evolutionism and the Place of Women in the United States, 1885-1900 -- Legislation: An Aid in Eliminating Sex Bias in Education in the United States -- Discrimination Against Women in the United States: Higher Education, Government Enforcement Agencies, and Unions -- The Women's Liberation Movement in the United States -- Politics of Theory: Participant Observation in the United States -- SECTION FOUR Women in the Planned Societies -- Introduction -- The Role and Status of Women in the Soviet Union: 1917 to the Present -- The Women s Movement in the People's Republic of China: A Survey -- The Mobilization of Women: Three Societies -- Image and Reality: Women s Status in Israel -- Sources of the Matrilineal Family System in the Works of Carl J. L. Almgvist -- SECTION FIVE Women in Anthropology -- Introduction -- Women in the Anthropology Profession - 1 -- Women in the Anthropology Profession - 2 -- Women and Fieldwork -- The Female Factor in Anthropology -- Aboriginal Woman: Male and Female Anthropological Perspectives -- Women, Knowledge, and Power -- Class, Commodity, and the Status of Women -- SECTION SIX Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
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I-XIV -- SECTION ONE Women in Islam and Africa -- Introduction -- Women in Bangladesh -- The Role of Women in the Development of Culture in Nigeria -- African Women: Identity Crisis? Some Observations on Education and the Changing Role of Women in Sierra Leone and Zaire -- SECTION TWO Women in Latin America -- Introduction -- Female Labor and Capitalism in the United States and Brazil -- Women in Mexico -- The Mayan Woman and Change -- Marital Status and Sexual Identity: The Position of Women in a Mexican Peasant Society -- Lower Economic Sector Female Mating Patterns in the Dominican Republic: A Comparative Analysis -- The Female Domestic Servant and Social Change: Lima, Peru -- Sociocultural Factors Mitigating Role Conflict of Buenos Aires Professional Women -- Life and Labor of the Woman Textile Worker in Mexico City -- Women as Workers: The Experience of the Puerto Rican Woman in the 1930's -- Resistance as Protest; Women in the Struggle of Bolivian Tin-Mining Communities -- SECTION THREE Women in the United States -- Introduction -- The Economic Basis of the Status of Women -- Evolutionism and the Place of Women in the United States, 1885-1900 -- Legislation: An Aid in Eliminating Sex Bias in Education in the United States -- Discrimination Against Women in the United States: Higher Education, Government Enforcement Agencies, and Unions -- The Women's Liberation Movement in the United States -- Politics of Theory: Participant Observation in the United States -- SECTION FOUR Women in the Planned Societies -- Introduction -- The Role and Status of Women in the Soviet Union: 1917 to the Present -- The Women s Movement in the People's Republic of China: A Survey -- The Mobilization of Women: Three Societies -- Image and Reality: Women s Status in Israel -- Sources of the Matrilineal Family System in the Works of Carl J. L. Almgvist -- SECTION FIVE Women in Anthropology -- Introduction -- Women in the Anthropology Profession - 1 -- Women in the Anthropology Profession - 2 -- Women and Fieldwork -- The Female Factor in Anthropology -- Aboriginal Woman: Male and Female Anthropological Perspectives -- Women, Knowledge, and Power -- Class, Commodity, and the Status of Women -- SECTION SIX Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

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