Toward an Anthropology of Women - Hardcover

Rayna R. Reiter

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9789350021620: Toward an Anthropology of Women

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9350021625 ISBN 13: 9789350021620

Publisher: Aakar Books, 2012

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Book follows the Marxist - Feminist arguments, outline of Marxist theory and the methodological biases that permeate almost all of what we know about the world of gender studies.

Table Of Contents
Introduction
Rayna R. Reiter
Perspectives on the Evolution of Sex Differences
Lila Leibowitz
Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology
Sally Slocum
The Origin of the Family
Kathleen Gough
!Kung Women: Contrasts in Sexual Egalitarianism in Foraging and Sedentary Contexts
Patricia Draper
Aboriginal Woman: Male and Female Anthropological Perspectives
Rubby Rohrlich-Leavitt, Barbara Sykes, and Elizabeth Weatherford
The Concept of Pollution Among the K�fe of the Papua New Guinea Highlands
Elizabeth Faithorn
Matriarchy: A Vision of Power
Paula Webster
The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political Economy of Sex
Gayle Rubin
Engels Revisited: Women, the Organization of Production, and Private Property
Karen Sacks
Iroquois Women: An Ethnohistoric Note
Judith K Brown
Men and Women in the South of France: Public and Private Domains
Rayna R Reiter
Women and Words in a Spanish Village
Susan Harding
The Life Crisis as a Clue to Social Function: The Case of Italy
Sydel F Silverman
Love Unites Them and Hunger Separates Them: Poor Women in the Dominican Republic
Susan E Brown
The Spread of Capitalism in Rural Colombia: Effects on Poor Women
Anna Rubbo
Underdevelopment and the Experience of Women: A Nigerian Case Study
Dorothy Remy
Collectivization, Kinship, and the Status of Women in Rural China
Norma Diamond
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