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1 online resource (308 pages). |
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World Anthropology
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World anthropology.
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| 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. |
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Matri-Patrilocality and the Birth of the First ChildAffectivity 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. |
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A Review of the Women's Movement in the United StatesAmerican 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. |
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Women and Social Customs within the Family: A Case Study of Attitudes in Kerala, IndiaSome Remarks on the Legal Equality between Men and Women; Biographical Notes; Index of Names; Index of Subjects. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Women -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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Women -- Social conditions -- Congresses. |
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Pregnancy -- Congresses.
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Pregnancy. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Raphael, Dana. Being Female : Reproduction, Power, and Change. Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, ©1975 9789027975997 |
| ISBN |
9783110813128 (electronic book) |
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3110813122 (electronic book) |
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