Being Female
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Being Female

Reproduction, Power, and Change

  1. 306 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Being Female

Reproduction, Power, and Change

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Table of contents

  1. General Editor’s Preface
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. SECTION ONE: REPRODUCTION
  5. Reproduction: Introductory Notes
  6. Socialization of Non-Human Primate Females: A Brief Overview
  7. Prenatal Hormones and Human Behavior: Implications for the Status of Women
  8. Spontaneous and Induced Abortion in Human and Non-Human Primates
  9. Birth Rituals in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Some Practical Applications
  10. The Relevance of Nourishment to the Reproductive Cycle of the Female in India
  11. Nutrition and Pregnancy
  12. Defining Marriage Cross-Culturally
  13. Matrescence, Becoming a Mother, A “New/Old” Rite de Passage
  14. Matri-Patrilocality and the Birth of the First Child
  15. Affectivity and Instrumentality in Friendship Patterns among American Women
  16. An Explanation for Matrilocal Residence
  17. SECTION TWO: WOMEN AND POWER
  18. Women and Power: Introductory Notes
  19. Women and Domestic Power: Political and Economic Strategies in Domestic Groups
  20. A Note on a Feminine Factor in Cultural History
  21. Non-Hierarchical, Hierarchical, and Masked Reciprocity in the Arab Village
  22. Bundu: Political Implications of Female Solidarity in a Secret Society
  23. Three Styles of Domestic Authority : A Cross-Cultural Study
  24. A Review of the Women’s Movement in the United States
  25. American Women in Politics: Culture, Structure, and Ideology
  26. SECTION THREE: SOCIAL TRENDS
  27. Social Trends: Introductory Notes
  28. The Eurogallegas : Female Spanish Migration
  29. Attitudes towards Reproduction in a Rapidly Changing African Society
  30. The Concepts of “Femininity” and “Liberation” in the Context of Changing Sex-Roles: Women in Modern India and America
  31. Vietnamese Women: Their Roles and Their Options
  32. Changing Roles of Women in Two African Muslim Cultures
  33. Women and Social Customs within the Family: A Case Study of Attitudes in Kerala, India
  34. Some Remarks on the Legal Equality between Men and Women
  35. Biographical Notes
  36. Index of Names
  37. Index of Subjects