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Table of contents
- General Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 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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