Being Female : : Reproduction, Power, and Change / / ed. by Dana Raphael.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Dillingham, Beth W.,; Divale, William Tulio,; Ehrhardt, Anke Α.,; Garretson, Lucy,; Hess Buechler, Judith-Maria,; Hoffer, Carol P.,; Hoskins, Marilyn W.,; Isaac, Barry L.,; Jahan, Rounaq,; John, Mariam,; Katona-Apte, Judit,; Kurian, George,; Lamphere, Louise,; Lomax, Alan,; Lord, Edith Elizabeth,; Namboze, Josephine M.,; Newman, Lucile,; Newton, Niles,; Nurge, Ethel,; Poirier, Frank E.,; Raphael, Dana,; Robson, John R. K.,; Rosenfeld, Henry,; Roy, Manisha,; Schlegel, Alice,; Scott Allen, Bettie,; Vidláková, Olga,; Wilson, Suzanne F.,; Yuan, Ying-Ying,
• HerausgeberIn: Raphael, Dana,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1975
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (293 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs.
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110813128; 9783110636772
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110813128
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Dana Raphael.