Woman, Culture, and Society

List Contributors......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Preface......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Contributors Bios......Page 9
Introduction......Page 13
Woman, Culture, and Society: A Theoretical Overview......Page 28
Asymmetries in Cultural Evaluations of the Sexes......Page 29
Domestic and Public Orientations......Page 34
Authority......Page 37
Achieved and ascribed status......Page 39
Nature and culture......Page 41
Women as anomalies......Page 42
Production......Page 45
Sources of power and value......Page 46
Conclusion......Page 52
Family structure and feminine personality......Page 54
The development of gender personality......Page 56
Sex-role learning and its social context......Page 65
Adult gender personality and sex role......Page 66
Ego boundaries and the mother-daughter relationship......Page 69
Social structures and the mother-daughter relationship......Page 71
Conclusion......Page 77
Is female to male as nature is to culture?......Page 78
The universality of female subordination......Page 80
Nature and culture......Page 82
Why is woman seen as closer to nature?......Page 84
The implications of intermediacy......Page 94
Conclusions......Page 98
Women in politics......Page 99
Strategies, cooperation, and conflict among women in domestic groups......Page 107
An alternative perspective......Page 108
Women, strategies, and cooperation among the Navajo......Page 111
The patricentered peasant family......Page 114
Extended families in African societies......Page 116
Women\'s strategies in modern industrial societies......Page 119
Conclusion......Page 121
Sex roles and survival strategies in an urban Black community......Page 123
Residence and the domestic network......Page 125
Mothers and fathers......Page 130
Fathers and children......Page 135
Conclusions......Page 137
Matrifocality in Indonesia and Africa and among Black Americans......Page 139
Java......Page 144
Atjeh......Page 147
Minangkabau......Page 152
Igbo......Page 156
Black Americans......Page 160
Summary......Page 164
Chinese Women: Old Skills in a New Context......Page 167
Madam Yoko: Ruler of the Kpa Mende Confederacy......Page 183
Background......Page 185
Acquisition of power......Page 187
Exercise of power......Page 191
Conclusion......Page 196
Female status in the public domain......Page 198
Female status: Two domains and three parameters......Page 199
An operational definition of female status in the public domain......Page 201
A theory of female status in the public domain......Page 203
Factors affecting female contribution to subsistence......Page 206
Relationship between female status and female contribution to subsistence......Page 207
Female status, sex antagonism, and female deities......Page 212
Conclusion......Page 214
Engels revisited: Women, the organization of production, and private property......Page 216
Women in Engels\'s theory: a reconstruction......Page 217
Engels\'s theory and nonclass societies......Page 220
Women as social adults and wives: four African societies......Page 222
Women in class societies: A reinterpretation......Page 228
Women in groups: Ijaw women\'s associations......Page 232
The two communities......Page 234
Factors allowing for association......Page 240
Patani associations......Page 243
The Korokorosei women\'s council......Page 247
Summary......Page 249
Sex and power in the Balkans......Page 252
Pastoralism, agriculture, and patricentrism......Page 253
Pastoralists and man\'s domain......Page 256
Pastoralists and woman\'s place......Page 259
Agriculturists......Page 265
Conclusion......Page 267
Epilogue......Page 269
Bachofen and Mother Right: Myth and History......Page 272
Mythical Origins of Fuegian male ceremonies......Page 278
The Tukanoan myth of Juruparí......Page 281
Myth and social roles......Page 285
The Mastery of work and the mystery of sex in a Guatemalan village......Page 290
The mastery of work......Page 291
The mystery of sex......Page 298
Conclusion......Page 307
Mediation of contradiction: Why Mbum women do not eat chicken......Page 309
The problem: Sexual asymmetry in food prohibitions......Page 310
Sex-role ascriptions in the technical relations of production......Page 311
Sexual inequality in the social relations of production......Page 314
Reproduction of conditions and relations of production......Page 317
Conclusions......Page 324
References cited......Page 328
Index......Page 348