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World Full of Women

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ISBN-10: 0205169929

ISBN-13: 9780205169924

Edition: 1996

Authors: Martha C. Ward

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 359
Language: English

Introduction
Old Words and New Realities
Where We're Coming From
Where to Begin and What Follows
Speaking of Women
Tender Trap or SuperWoman?
Code Switching
Talking Troubles and Carrying Conversations
Some Books That Changed Our Lives
"What's for Dinner, Honey?":Work and Gender
Work: The First Fact of Life
"What's for Dinner?": Gender and Practical Economics
Planting and Harvesting: The Next Revolution
Off to Work We Go
Value, Valued, and Valuable
Interpreting Food, Work, and the Facts of Life
A Few of the Many Books You May Want to Read
Love and the Work of Culture
More than Personal Lives
The Personal Is Professional
Sex and Temperament
Situations on the Sepik
Daughters of Sex and Temperament
Beyond the Sepik
Intimacy and the World Stage
Conclusion: Their Last Great Work
So Many Books: Where Can I Start?
Blood and Milk: Biocultural Markers in the Lives of Women
Where Biology and Culture Meet in the Bodies of Women
Desire and Control
Comparative Childbirth
Motherhood and Fetal Subjects
Social Women in Biological Bodies: Some Conclusions
Some Very Important Books to Read
Primate Connections: How Natural is Nature Anyway?
Studying Chimpanzees
Studying Baboons
Studying the Human Nature of Women and Men
The Cultures of Breastfeeding
Some Evolutionary or Revolutionary Books to Read
Patterns of Partnering from Romance to Resistance
Varieties of Arrangements
Love Marriages and Lavish Weddings
Reading from Romance to Resistance
A Two-Bodied World: Cultural Systems for Separating Females and Males
Amazon: Women of the Forest and the Flutes
Melanesia: Birth and Semen
Islamic Middle East: Veiled Separations
Conclusions: What Do Systems of Separation Mean?