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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (670 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs. and plates
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Other title: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 --
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 --
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 --
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 --
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
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110818567
9783110637922
DOI:10.1515/9783110818567
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Ruby Rohrlich-Leavitt.