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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Tokyo : United Nations University Press, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (x, 214 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585225435
  • 9780585225432
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women and kinship.DDC classification:
  • 305.48
LOC classification:
  • GN487.D845
Other classification:
  • 73.45
Online resources:
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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  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Summary: 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 regions of Asia - predominantly patrilineal South Asia and predominantly bilateral South-East Asia, with a presence of matriliny in both.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-210) and index.

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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 regions of Asia - predominantly patrilineal South Asia and predominantly bilateral South-East Asia, with a presence of matriliny in both.

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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.

English.

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