Being Female : : Reproduction, Power, and Change /

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

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (293 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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