Agnatic Group
Biological Account
Biological Infrastructure
Biosocial Anthropology
Biosocial Model
Biosocial Theory
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- ISBN 9780854967278
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 11 Mar 1993
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Mrs Shirley Ardener Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women,University of Oxford
