The Economic Basis of the Status of Women

Chapters in this book

1. I-XIV I
2. SECTION ONE Women in Islam and Africa
3. Introduction 3
4. Women in Bangladesh 5
5. The Role of Women in the Development of Culture in Nigeria 31
6. African Women: Identity Crisis? Some Observations on Education and the Changing Role of Women in Sierra Leone and Zaire 41
7. SECTION TWO Women in Latin America
8. Introduction 55
9. Female Labor and Capitalism in the United States and Brazil 59
10. Women in Mexico 95
11. The Mayan Woman and Change 111
12. Marital Status and Sexual Identity: The Position of Women in a Mexican Peasant Society 129
13. Lower Economic Sector Female Mating Patterns in the Dominican Republic: A Comparative Analysis 149
14. The Female Domestic Servant and Social Change: Lima, Peru 163
15. Sociocultural Factors Mitigating Role Conflict of Buenos Aires Professional Women 181
16. Life and Labor of the Woman Textile Worker in Mexico City 199
17. Women as Workers: The Experience of the Puerto Rican Woman in the 1930's 251
18. Resistance as Protest; Women in the Struggle of Bolivian Tin-Mining Communities 265
19. SECTION THREE Women in the United States
20. Introduction 279
21. The Economic Basis of the Status of Women 285
22. Evolutionism and the Place of Women in the United States, 1885-1900 301
23. Legislation: An Aid in Eliminating Sex Bias in Education in the United States 331
24. Discrimination Against Women in the United States: Higher Education, Government Enforcement Agencies, and Unions 365
25. The Women's Liberation Movement in the United States 379
26. Politics of Theory: Participant Observation in the United States 393
27. SECTION FOUR Women in the Planned Societies
28. Introduction 427
29. The Role and Status of Women in the Soviet Union: 1917 to the Present 433
30. The Women s Movement in the People's Republic of China: A Survey 461
31. The Mobilization of Women: Three Societies 475
32. Image and Reality: Women s Status in Israel 495
33. Sources of the Matrilineal Family System in the Works of Carl J. L. Almgvist 511
34. SECTION FIVE Women in Anthropology
35. Introduction 535
36. Women in the Anthropology Profession - 1 541
37. Women in the Anthropology Profession - 2 551
38. Women and Fieldwork 555
39. The Female Factor in Anthropology 563
40. Aboriginal Woman: Male and Female Anthropological Perspectives 571
41. Women, Knowledge, and Power 585
42. Class, Commodity, and the Status of Women 605
43. SECTION SIX Conclusions
44. Conclusions 623
45. Biographical Notes 647
46. Index of Names 657
47. Index of Subjects 665