| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
xii, 322 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-315) and index. |
| Contents |
1. "What's for dinner honey?" : work and gender -- 2. Love and the work of culture -- 3. Blood and milk : biocultural markers in the lives of women -- 4. Primates are us : monkeys, mothers, and "nature" -- 5. Patterns of partnering from romance to resistance -- 6. A two-bodied world : cultural systems for separating females and males -- 7. A third sex? : gender as alternative or continuum -- 8. Life's lesions : suffering and healing -- 9. Who owns her body : challenges to cultural relativism -- 10. Invisible workers : women as the Earth's last colony. |
| Subject |
Women's studies.
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Women's studies. |
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Women -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Women -- Cross-cultural studies. |
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Feminist anthropology.
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Feminist anthropology. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| ISBN |
0205281354 alkaline paper |
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