Being female : reproduction, power, and change / editor, Dana Raphael.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Reproduction : introductory notes / Lucile Newman -- Socialization of non-human primate females : a brief overview / Frank E. Poirier -- Prenatal hormones and human behavior : implications for the status of women / Anke A. Ehrhardt -- Spontaneous and induced abortion in human and non-human primates / Ethel Nurge -- Birth rituals in cross-cultural perspective : some practical applications / Niles Newton -- The relevance of nourishment to the reproductive cycle of the female in India / Judit Katona-Apte -- Nutrition and pregnancy / John R.K. Robson -- Defining marriage cross-culturally / Beth W. Dillingham and Barry L. Isaac -- Matrescence, becoming a mother, a "new/old" rite de passage / Dana Raphael -- Matri-patrilocality and the birth of the first child / Suzanne F. Wilson -- Affectivity and instrumentality in friendship patterns among American women / Ying-Ying Yuan -- An explanation for matrilocal residence / William Tulio Divale -- Women and power : introductory notes / Dana Raphael -- Women and domestic power : political and economic strategies in domestic groups / Louise Lamphere -- A note on a feminine factor in cultural history / Alan Lomax -- Non-hierarchical, hierarchical, and masked reciprocity in the Arab village / Henry Rosenfeld -- Bundu : political implications of female solidarity in a secret society / Carol P. Hoffer -- Three styles of domestic authority : a cross-cultural study / Alice Schlegel -- A review of the women's movement in the United States / Bettie Scott Allen -- American women in politics : culture, structure, and ideology / Lucy Garretson -- Social trends : introductory notes / Rounaq Jahan -- The Eurogallegas : female Spanish migration / Judith-Maria Hess Buechler -- Attitudes towards reproduction in a rapidly changing African society / Josephine M. Namboze -- The concepts of "femininity" and "liberation" in the context of changing sex-roles : women in modern India and America / Manisha Roy -- Vietnamese women : their roles and their options / Marilyn W. Hoskins -- Changing roles of women in two African Muslim cultures / Edith Elizabeth Lord -- Women and social customs within the family : a case study of attitudes in Kerala, India / George Kurian and Mariam John -- Some remarks on the legal equality between men and women / Olga Vidláková.

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