Defining Females (eBook, PDF)

The Nature of Women in Society
Redaktion: Ardener, Shirley

• Format: PDF

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. The authors - anthropologists, sociologists, ethnologists, neurologists and psychologists - consider the structural position of women; how they are defined by reference to physiological and social markers, and how they are required to behave. They also consider ways in which different cultures identify and deal with such `natural' aspects of women as virginity, sexuality and childbearing. The broad variety of geographical perspectives reveals dissimilar as well as similar ideas about women - in their use of language and of space, matrifocality, and life trajectories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000324969
• Artikelnr.: 60801831

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