Women Cross-Culturally

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Frontmatter -- SECTION ONE Women in Islam and Africa -- Introduction -- Women in Bangladesh / JAHAN, ROUNAQ -- The Role of Women in the Development of Culture in Nigeria / OKONJO, -- African Women: Identity Crisis? Some Observations on Education and the Changing Role of Women in Sierra Leone and Zaire / ROUSSEAU, IDA FAYE -- SECTION TWO Women in Latin America -- Introduction -- Female Labor and Capitalism in the United States and Brazil / SAFFIOTI, HELEIETH IARA BONGIOVANI -- Women in Mexico / SÁNCHEZ, AURELIA GUADALUPE / DOMÍNGUEZ, ANA E. -- The Mayan Woman and Change / ELMENDORF, M. L. -- Marital Status and Sexual Identity: The Position of Women in a Mexican Peasant Society / SLADE, DOREN L. -- Lower Economic Sector Female Mating Patterns in the Dominican Republic: A Comparative Analysis / BROWN, SUSAN E. -- The Female Domestic Servant and Social Change: Lima, Peru / SMITH, MARGO L. -- Sociocultural Factors Mitigating Role Conflict of Buenos Aires Professional Women / KINZER, NORA SCOTT -- Life and Labor of the Woman Textile Worker in Mexico City / PIHO, VIRVE -- Women as Workers: The Experience of the Puerto Rican Woman in the 1930's / SILVESTRINI-PACHECO, BLANCA -- Resistance as Protest; Women in the Struggle of Bolivian Tin-Mining Communities -- SECTION THREE Women in the United States -- Introduction -- The Economic Basis of the Status of Women / LARGUIA, ISABEL -- Evolutionism and the Place of Women in the United States, 1885-1900 / EHRLICH, CAROL -- Legislation: An Aid in Eliminating Sex Bias in Education in the United States / HEATH, KATHRYN G. -- Discrimination Against Women in the United States: Higher Education, Government Enforcement Agencies, and Unions / BABEY-BROOKE, ANNA M. -- The Women's Liberation Movement in the United States / FREEMAN, JO -- Politics of Theory: Participant Observation in the United States / SCHOEPF, BROOKE GRUNDFEST / MARIOTTI, AMELIA M. -- SECTION FOUR Women in the Planned Societies -- Introduction -- The Role and Status of Women in the Soviet Union: 1917 to the Present / ROSENTHAL, BERNICE GLATZER -- The Women s Movement in the People's Republic of China: A Survey / DAVIN, DELIA -- The Mobilization of Women: Three Societies / CHANEY, ELSA . -- Image and Reality: Women s Status in Israel / PADAN-EISENSTARK, DORIT -- Sources of the Matrilineal Family System in the Works of Carl J. L. Almgvist / BERG, KARIN WESTMAN -- SECTION FIVE Women in Anthropology -- Introduction -- Women in the Anthropology Profession - 1 / BARKER, DIANA -- Women in the Anthropology Profession - 2 / CAPLAN, PAT -- Women and Fieldwork / BUJRA, JANET -- The Female Factor in Anthropology / IFEKA, CAROLINE -- Aboriginal Woman: Male and Female Anthropological Perspectives / ROHRLICH-LEAVITT, RUBY / SYKES, BARBARA / WEATHERFORD, ELIZABETH -- Women, Knowledge, and Power / SUTTON, CONSTANCE / MAKIESKY, SUSAN / DWYER, DAISY / KLEIN, LAURA -- Class, Commodity, and the Status of Women / LEACOCK, ELEANOR -- SECTION SIX Conclusions -- Conclusions / ROHRLICH-LEAVITT, RUBY -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects