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