Women Cross-Culturally: Change and Challenge

General Editor’s Preface
Preface
Table of Contents
SECTION ONE: WOMEN IN ISLAM AND AFRICA INTRODUCTION
Women in Bangladesh
The Role of Women in the Development of Culture in Nigeria
African Women: Identity Crisis? Some Observations on Education and the Changing Role of Women in Sierra Leone and Zaire
SECTION TWO: WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICA
INTRODUCTION
Female Labor and Capitalism in the United States and Brazil
Women in Mexico
The Mayan Woman and Change
Marital Status and Sexual Identity: The Position of Women in a Mexican Peasant Society
Lower Economic Sector Female Mating Patterns in the Dominican Republic: A Comparative Analysis
The Female Domestic Servant and Social Change: Lima, Peru
Sociocultural Factors Mitigating Role Conflict of Buenos Aires Professional Women
Life and Labor of the Woman Textile Worker in Mexico City
Women as Workers: The Experience of the Puerto Rican Woman in the 1930’s
Resistance as Protest: Women in the Struggle of Bolivian Tin-Mining Communities
SECTION THREE: WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES
INTRODUCTION
The Economic Basis of the Status of Women
Evolutionism and the Place of Women in the United States, 1885–1900
Legislation: An Aid in Eliminating Sex Bias in Education in the United States
Discrimination Against Women in the United States: Higher Education, Government Enforcement Agencies, and Unions
The Women’s Liberation Movement in the United States
Politics of Theory: Participant Observation in the United States
SECTION FOUR: WOMEN IN PLANNED SOCIETIES
INTRODUCTION
The Role and Status of Women in the Soviet Union: 1917 to the Present
The Women’s Movement in the People’s Republic of China: A Survey
The Mobilization of Women: Three Societies
Image and Reality: Women’s Status in Israel
Sources of the Matrilineal Family System in the Works of Carl J. L. Almqvist
SECTION FIVE: WOMEN IN ANTHROPOLOGY
INTRODUCTION
Women in the Anthropology Profession – 1
Women in the Anthropology Profession – 2
Women and Fieldwork
The Female Factor in Anthropology
Aboriginal Woman: Male and Female Anthropological Perspectives
Women, Knowledge, and Power
Class, Commodity, and the Status of Women
SECTION SIX: CONCLUSIONS
Conclusions
Biographical Notes
Index of Names
Index of Subjects