From menarche to menopause : reproductive lives of peasant women in two cultures /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Beyene, Yewoubdar
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1989.
Series:SUNY series in medical anthropology.
Subjects:
Menopause > Cross-cultural studies.
Menarche > Cross-cultural studies.
Maya women.
Women > Greece.
Sex role > Cross-cultural studies.
Women peasants > Cross-cultural studies.
Nature and nurture.
Cross-cultural studies.
Menarche.
Menopause.
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Menarche
Menopause
Hérédité et milieu.
Ménarche.
Ménopause.
Ménopause > Études transculturelles.
Ménarche > Études tranculturelles.
Mayas > Femmes.
Rôle selon le sexe > Études transculturelles.
Femmes > Grèce.
Ménarche > Études transculturelles.
Femmes mayas.
Agricultrices > Études transculturelles.
Études transculturelles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Cross-cultural studies
Maya women
Nature and nurture
Sex role
Women
Women peasants
Kulturvergleich
Geschlechterrolle
Frau
Greece
Griechenland
Maya.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Current assumptions about menopause
  • Chichimila: a Mayan village
  • Stira: a mountain village in Greece
  • Getting to know the women
  • Being a woman in Chichimila
  • Being a woman in Stira
  • Comparing reproductive histories, Part 1: From menarche through childbearing
  • Comparing reproductive histories, Part 2: Menopause in two cultures
  • Menopause: a biocultural event
  • Appendix: A comparison of the distribution of fertility patterns for Mayan and Greek women.

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