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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.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.