The other fifty percent : multicultural perspectives on gender relations /

The other fifty percent : multicultural perspectives on gender relations / edited by Mari Womack and Judith Marti.

This book challenges traditional anthropological assumptions about the ordering of male and female roles crossculturally. Drawing on research in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America, the contributors to this volume explore the ordering of gender in such aspects of social life as marriag...

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Other Authors: Womack, Mari., Marti, Judith.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press, [1993]
Subjects:
Sex role > Cross-cultural studies.
Women > Social conditions > Cross-cultural studies.
Gender identity > Cross-cultural studies.
Gender roles.
Role behavior.
Women.
Gender identity.
Gender.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. On the nature of things. Biological influences on gender / Jean Stockard and Miriam M. Johnson
  • Separate people: Speeking of Creek men and women / Amelia Rector Bell
  • Oedipus in the New Guinea Highlands? / L. L. Langness
  • Woman as other / Simone de Beauvoir
  • Pt. 2. Why not ask the women?
  • Samoa: The adolescent girl / Margaret Mead
  • A woman alone in the field / Hortense Powdermaker
  • Access to women's knowledge: The Azande experience / Stephen David Siemens
  • Adventures in the field and in the locker room / Mari Womack and Joan C. Barker
  • Pt. 3. Love, marriage and power. Status, property, and the value on virginity / Alice Schlegel
  • Symbol and meaning in the Nayar marriage ritual / Melinda A. Moore
  • Why women take men to magistrate's court / Mindie Lazarus-Black
  • In-law relationships in American kinship system: The impact of divorce and remarriage / Colleen Leahy Johnson
  • Economics, power and gender relations. Mean and women in Southern Spain: "Domestic power" revisited / David D. Gilmore
  • Contested order: Gender and society in the Southern New Guinea Highlands / Rena Lederman
  • Breadwinners and decision-makers: Nineteenth-Century Mexican women vendors / Judith E. Marti
  • Daughters of the forest / Agnes Estioko-Griffin
  • Pt. 5. Gender on Earth and in the cosmos. Power as violence: Hindu images of femail fury / Ann Grodzins Gold
  • Legendary heroines: Ideal womanhood and ideology in Iran / Erika Friedl
  • A healing ritual: The life and words of Nisa a !Kung woman / Marjorie Shostak
  • The woman who didn't become a shaman / Margery Wolf
  • Pt. 6. Challenges to the social and cosmic order. Debunking Marianismo: Economic vulnerability and survival strategies among Guatemalan wives / Tracy Bachrach Ehlers
  • Poetics and politics in the Ecuadorean Andes: Women's narratives of death and devil possession / Mary M. Crain
  • A businesswoman among middlemen: A case from Siassi / Alice Pomponio
  • Shades of blue: Female and male perspectives on policing / Joan C. Barker.

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