ISBN:
9780415912976
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (385 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender, Kinship and Power : A Comparative and Interdisciplinary History
DDC:
306.83
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Through twenty engaging essays exploring cultures ranging from ancient Judaic civilization to contemporary Brazil, 〈STRONG〉〈/STRONG〉〈STRONG〉〈EM〉Gender, Kinship and Power〈/EM〉〈/STRONG〉 places important contemporary issues related to kinship--such as parental responsibility and female-headed households--in their proper comparative and historical framework
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Toward a Comparative History of Gender, Kinship and Power; Part One: Kinship Systems: Theories, Practices, Contradictions; 1. The Father, the Phallus, and the Seminal Word: Dilemmas of Patrilineality in Ancient Judaism; 2. Blood Ties and Semen Ties: Consanguinity and Agnation in Roman Law; 3. Kinship Between the Lines: The Patriline, the Concubine and the Adopted Son in Late Imperial China; 4. Musings on Matriliny: Understandings and Social Relations among the Sursurunga of New Ireland
Description / Table of Contents:
Part Two: Women's Perspectives on Kinship5. Family Trees and the Construction of Kinship in Renaissance Italy; 6. Marriage and Women's Subjectivity in a Patrilineal System: The Case of Early Modern Bologna; 7. Male Authority and Female Autonomy: A Study of the Matrilineal Nayars of Kerala, South India; 8. The Limits of Patriliny: Kinship, Gender and Women's Speech Practices in Rural North India; 9. Cooking Inside: Kinship and Gender in Bangangté Idioms of Marriage and Procreation; Part Three: ""Fish without Bicycles"": Gender and the Paradoxes of Kinship
Description / Table of Contents:
10. Patriarchal Provisions for Widows and Orphans in Medieval London11. Work and Residence of ""Women Alone"" in the Context of a Patrilineal System (Eighteenth-and Ninteenth-Century Northern Italy); 12. Heading Households and Surviving in a Man's World: Brazilian Women in the Nineteenth Century; Part Four: Parents, Breadwinners, Providers: Family Roles between Ideology and Economics; 13. Illegitimacy and Low-Wage Economy in Highland Austria and Jamaica; 14. Women and Kinship in Propertyless Classes in Western Europe in the Nineteenth Century
Description / Table of Contents:
15. The Social Construction of Wife and Mother: Women in Porfirian Mexico, 1880-191716. Matrifocal Males: Gender, Perception and Experience of the Domestic Domain in Brazil; Part Five: Gender and Kinship in Changing Political Economies; 17. The Waxing and Waning of Matrilineality in São Paulo, Brazil: Historical Variations in an Ambilineal System, 1500-1900; 18. Divorced from the Land: Accommodation Strategies of Indian Women in Eighteenth-Century New England; 19. Let's Go to My Place: Residence, Gender and Power in a Mende Community
Description / Table of Contents:
20. The Land, the Law and Legitimate Children: Thinking through Gender, Kinship and Nation in the British Virgin IslandsIndex; Contributors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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