ISBN:
9783110813128
,
3110813122
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (308 pages)
Series Statement:
World Anthropology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Raphael, Dana Being Female : Reproduction, Power, and Change
DDC:
301.412
Keywords:
Women Congresses
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Social conditions
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Pregnancy Congresses
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Women Congresses Social conditions
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Pregnancy Congresses
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Women Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General
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Pregnancy
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Women ; Social conditions
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Sociale aspecten
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Zwangerschap
;
Vrouwen
;
Women
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Electronic book
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Electronic books Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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.
Note:
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URL:
http://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9783110813128
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