| Description |
L, 361 pages : map ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
Visibility and invisibility of women -- The representation of women in academic models / Shirley Ardener -- The pregnant male / Claude Meillassoux -- Seed and earth : the symbolism of biological reproduction and sexual relations of production / Leela Dube -- Speech and silence : women in Iran / Anny Tual -- The childbirth industry : a woman's view / Margaret Stephens -- Women whisper, men kill : a case study of the Mamasani pastoral nomads of Iran / Soheila Shahshahani -- The problem of dominance / Edwin Ardener -- Women, power and authority -- Women, power and authority / Eleanor Leacock -- Women, power and authority in traditional Yoruba society / Simi Afonja -- Sex roles and dialects of survival and equality : a case study of women workers on a tea plantation in Assam / Shobhita Jain -- Sasak attitudes towards polygyny and the changing position of women in Sasak peasant villages / Ruth Krulfeld -- Women in Brazilian 'abertura' politics / Marianne Schmink -- Women in resistance and research : potential against power / Gerrit Huizer -- Women and development -- Kerala women as labourers and supervisors : implications for women and development / Joan Mencher and Deborah D'Amico -- Women in development : the case of an all-woman youth land development scheme in Malaysia / Mazidah Zakariah and Nik Safiah Karim -- From articulation to accommodation : women's movement in India / Neera Desai -- Women, production and reproduction in industrial capitalism : a comparison of Brazilian and U.S. factory workers / Helen I. Safa -- A study of Balmiki women in Delhi / Malavika Karlekar -- Changing economic roles of farm women in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / Ruža First-Dilić. |
| Subject |
Women in development -- Developing countries -- Congresses.
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Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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Power (Social sciences) -- Congresses.
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| Indexed Term |
Society Role of women |
| Added Author |
Dube, Leela.
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Leacock, Eleanor Burke, 1922-1987.
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Ardener, Shirley.
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| ISBN |
0195616820: Rs180.00 |
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