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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: BABEY-BROOKE, ANNA M.,; BARKER, DIANA,; BERG, KARIN WESTMAN,; BROWN, SUSAN E.,; BUJRA, JANET,; CAPLAN, PAT,; CHANEY, ELSA Μ.,; DAVIN, DELIA,; DOMÍNGUEZ, ANA E.,; DWYER, DAISY,; EHRLICH, CAROL,; ELMENDORF, M. L.,; FREEMAN, JO,; HEATH, KATHRYN G.,; IFEKA, CAROLINE,; JAHAN, ROUNAQ,; KINZER, NORA SCOTT,; KLEIN, LAURA,; LARGUIA, ISABEL,; LEACOCK, ELEANOR,; MAKIESKY, SUSAN,; MARIOTTI, AMELIA M.,; OKONJO, ΚΑΜΕΝΕ,; PADAN-EISENSTARK, DORIT,; PIHO, VIRVE,; ROHRLICH-LEAVITT, RUBY,; ROSENTHAL, BERNICE GLATZER,; ROUSSEAU, IDA FAYE,; SAFFIOTI, HELEIETH IARA BONGIOVANI,; SCHOEPF, BROOKE GRUNDFEST,; SILVESTRINI-PACHECO, BLANCA,; SLADE, DOREN L.,; SMITH, MARGO L.,; SUTTON, CONSTANCE,; SYKES, BARBARA,; SÁNCHEZ, AURELIA GUADALUPE,; WEATHERFORD, ELIZABETH,
• HerausgeberIn: Rohrlich-Leavitt, Ruby,
• 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 (670 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs. and plates

Table of 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