Research Catalog

Title

Women and space : ground rules and social maps / edited by Shirley Ardener.

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1981.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ardener, Shirley.
• University of Oxford. Women's Studies Committee.

Description

239 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Börngen, ..
• Women > Social conditions
• Personal space
• Space perception > Social aspects
• Interpersonal relations
• Personal Space
• Interpersonal Relations
• Kulturvergleich
• Soziale Situation
• Sozialökologie
• Öffentlicher Raum
• Frau
• Vrouwen
• Sociale situatie
• Ruimte (algemeen)
• Social organization
• Social organization > Women
• Status of women
• Personal space > Sex differences
• Spatial behavior > Sex differences
• Sex differences

Note

• "Sponsored by the Oxford University Women's Studies Committee"--Pref.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 229-236

Contents

Ground rules and social maps for women : an introduction / Shirley Ardener -- Andean women and the concept of space/time / Sarah Skar -- Women's space in a men's house : the British House of Commons / Silvia Rodgers -- Essential objects and the sacred : interior and exterior space in an urban Greek locality / Renée Hirschon -- The problem of privacy in Mediterranean anthropology / Lidia Sciama -- Sexual prohibitions, shared space and fictive marriages in Shiʼite Iran / Jane Khatib-Chahidi -- Place and face : of women in Doshman Ziari, Iran / Susan Wright -- The sexual division of domestic space among two Soviet minorities : the Georgians and the Tadjiks / Tamara Dragadze -- Spatial domains and women's mobility in Yorubaland, Nigeria / Helen Callaway -- Where women must dominate : response to oppression in a South African urban community / Rosemary Ridd -- Private parts in public places :the case of actresses / Juliet Blair.

ISBN

• 0312887337
• 9780312887339

LCCN

81005253

OCLC

• ocm07462167
• 7462167
• SCSB-52560

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library