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

By: Dube, Leela [author]
Contributor(s): United Nations University
Language: English Publisher: Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, 1997Description: x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9280809229; 8170366186Subject(s): Women -- South Asia | Kinship -- South Asia | Gender identity -- South Asia | Women -- Southeast Asia | Kinship -- Southeast Asia | Gender identity -- Southeast AsiaDDC classification: 305.40954 LOC classification: GN635.S57 | D82 1997Online resources: Publisher description
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.
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 index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-210)

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.

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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