Defining Females

The Nature of Women in Society

By: Shirley Ardener (Editor)

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Paperback | 11 March 1993 | Edition Number 1

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Second, Revised Edition To what are we referring when we speak of women? What is the nature of women in society; what is the nature of women in society? These are the central questions of this classic text which looks at areas ranging from England and Greece to Mongolia and Africa. The authors - anthropologists, sociologists, ethnologists, neurologists and psychologists - consider the structural position of women; how they are defined by reference to physiological and social markers, and how they are required to behave. They also consider ways in which different cultures identify and deal with such 'natural' aspects of women as virginity, sexuality and childbearing. The broad variety of geographical perspectives reveals dissimilar as well as similar ideas about women - in their use of language and of space, matrifocality, and life trajectories.

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'...useful to anyone interested in the cross-cultural study of women, anthropologically, geographically or politically.' Newsletter of the African Studies Association of Australia and the Pacific '... [a] historiographic landmark in feminist cultural analysis.' Gender, Place and Culture

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