Defining Females (eBook, ePUB)

The Nature of Women in Society
Redaktion: Ardener, Shirley

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Second, Revised EditionTo what are we referring when we speak of women? What is the nature of women in society; what is the nature of women in society? These are the central questions of this classic text which looks at areas ranging from England and Greece to Mongolia and Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000323177
• Artikelnr.: 60802065

Autorenporträt

Mrs Shirley Ardener Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women,University of Oxford

Inhaltsangabe

S. Ardener
Introduction - K. Hastrup
The Semantics of Biology: Virginity - R. Hirschon
Open Body/Closed Space: The transformation of Female Sexuality - C. Humphrey
Women
Taboo and the Suppression of Attention - J. Okely
Privileged
Schooled and Finished: Boarding Education for Girls - W. James
Matrifocus on African Women - H. Callaway
`The Most Essentially Female Function of All': Giving Birth - H. Callan
Harems and Overlords: Biosocial Models and the Female - S. Macdonald
The Socialisation of Nature; The Naturalisation of the Social