WOMEN IN PERSPECTIVE: A Guide for Cross-Cultural Studies

By Sue-Ellen Jacobs

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252003454
• ISBN13: 9780252003455
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"

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Women in Perspective

A major reference covering literature on women, this bibliography is intended to stimulate the development of a thorough body of knowledge about women in specific cultures and culture areas. While there is a paucity of literature on women in many specific areas, the changing position of women in contemporary industrial societies has received considerable attention, so a lengthy section on sources dealing with various liberation efforts is included. The volume will be useful to anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and anyone interested in the varieties of female roles and expression and the position of women in the heirarchies of social organization in diverse societies. Part I, "Geographical Topics," covers sources on areas in Africa, Middle East, Aisa, Europe, Oceania, South America, and North America. Part II, Subject Topics," covers such categories as primate studies, personality/psychological studies, marriage, divorce, child-rearing practices, pregnancy, birth control, sex and sexuality, rites of passage, role development, prostitution, homosexuality, misogyny, suffrage, women in literature, women in politics, and publications on sex discrimination. --- from book's back cover