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Defining females : the nature of women in society / edited by Shirley Ardener.
- Title
- Defining females : the nature of women in society / edited by Shirley Ardener.
- Publication
- Oxford ; Providence : Berg, 1993.
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- Additional Authors
- Ardener, Shirley.
- Description
- viii, 216 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; v. 4
- Uniform Title
- Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; v. 4.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : the nature of women in society / Shirley Ardener -- The semantics of biology : virginity / Kirsten Hastrup -- Open body/closed space : the transformation of female sexuality / Renée Hirschon -- Women, taboo and the suppression of attention / Caroline Humphrey -- Privileged, schooled and finished : boarding education for girls / Judith Okely -- Matrifocus on African women / Wendy James -- 'The most essentially female function of all' : giving birth / Helen Callaway -- Harems and overlords : biosocial models and the female / Hilary Callan -- The socialisation of the natural and the naturalisation of the social / Sharon Macdonald.
- ISBN
- 0854967273 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^92039823^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library