Women and kinship : comparative perspectives on gender in South and South-East Asia /

This is the first sustained effort to compare South and South-East Asia in respect of the situation of women. Arguing that kinship systems provide an important context in which gender relations are located, the study looks at three types of kinship system, found in their various forms in the two reg...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dube, Leela
Corporate Author: United Nations University
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tokyo : United Nations University Press, 1997.
Subjects:
Women > South Asia.
Kinship > South Asia.
Gender identity > South Asia.
Women > Southeast Asia.
Kinship > Southeast Asia.
Gender identity > Southeast Asia.
Sex role > South Asia.
Sex role > Southeast Asia.
Femmes > Asie méridionale > Conditions sociales.
Parenté > Asie méridionale.
Rôle selon le sexe > Asie méridionale.
Femmes > Asie du Sud-Est > Conditions sociales.
Parenté > Asie du Sud-Est.
Rôle selon le sexe > Asie du Sud-Est.
Femmes > Asie méridionale.
Identité de genre > Asie méridionale.
Femmes > Asie du Sud-Est.
Identité de genre > Asie du Sud-Est.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Sex role
Gender identity
Kinship
Women
Sekseverschillen.
Verwantschap.
Femmes > Asie du Sud.
Parenté > Asie du Sud.
Identité sexuelle > Asie du Sud.
Identité sexuelle > Asie du Sud-Est.
South Asia
Southeast Asia
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Kinship and family organization
  • 3. Group membership, inheritance, and resource distribution
  • 4. The management of female sexuality
  • 5. The seclusion of women
  • 6. Bodily processes and limitations on women
  • 7. Women and living spaces
  • 8. Residence
  • 9. Marriage
  • 10. Nutrition and discrimination
  • 11. Gender and education
  • 12. Conclusion.

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