Research Catalog

Title

Visibility and power : essays on women in society and development / edited by Leela Dube, Eleanor Leacock, Shirley Ardener.

Publication

Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dube, Leela
• Leacock, Eleanor Burke, 1922-1987
• Ardener, Shirley

Description

L, 361 p. : map; 23 cm.

Summary

Conference papers, women, womens empowerment, social status, social role, economic role, economic and social development, developing countries - social and cultural anthropology, models, fertility, sex, production relations, rural women, woman workers, womens organizations, political participation, social conflict, sexual division of labour, employment opportunities, case studies, Brazil, India, Iran, Islamic Republic, Malaysia, Togo, Yugoslavia. Diagrams, graphs. Maps, references, statistical tables.

Subject

• Women in development > Developing countries > Congresses
• Women > Developing countries > Social conditions > Congresses
• Power (Social sciences) > Congresses
• Feminist anthropology > Congresses
• Feminist anthropology
• Power (Social sciences)
• Women in development
• Women > Social conditions
• Frau
• Gesellschaft
• Kongress
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Vrouwen
• Sociale situatie
• women
• womens empowerment
• social status
• social role
• economic role
• economic and social development
• social and cultural anthropology
• model
• fertility
• sex
• production relations
• rural women
• women workers
• womens organization
• political participation
• social conflict
• sexual division of labour
• employment opportunity
• case study
• statistical table
• Femmes > Pays en voie de développement > Congrès
• Pouvoir (sciences sociales) > Congrès
• Frau
• Kongress
• Gesellschaft
• Aufsatzsammlung
• femmes
• autonomisation des femmes
• statut social
• rôle social
• rôle économique
• développement économique et social
• anthropologie sociale et culturelle
• modèle
• fécondité
• sexe
• rapports de production
• femmes rurales
• travailleuses
• organisation féminine
• participation politique
• conflit social
• division du travail basée sur le sexe
• possibilités d'emploi
• étude de cas
• tableau statistique
• mujeres
• potenciación de las mujeres
• condición social
• papel social
• papel económico
• desarrollo económico y social
• antropología social y cultural
• modelo
• fecundidad
• sexo
• relaciones de producción
• mujeres rurales
• trabajadoras
• organización femenina
• participación política
• conflicto social
• división del trabajo por sexo
• oportunidades de empleo
• estudio de casos
• cuadros estadísticos
• Developing countries
• Entwicklungsländer
• Brazil
• developing countries
• India
• Iran, Islamic Republic
• Malaysia
• Togo
• Yugoslavia
• Entwicklungsländer
• Brésil
• pays en développement
• Inde
• Iran, République islamique
• Malaisie
• Yougoslavie
• Brasil
• países en desarrollo
• Irán, República Islámica
• Malasia

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• conference paper.
• graph.
• map.
• reference.
• Congresses.
• document de conférence.
• carte géographique.
• graphique.
• référence bibliographique.
• documento de conferencia.
• gráfico.
• mapa.
• referencia.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Visibility and invisibility of women -- The representation of women in academic models / Shirley Ardener -- The pregnant male / Claude Meillassoux -- Seed and earth : the symbolism of biological reproduction and sexual relations of production / Leela Dube -- Speech and silence : women in Iran / Anny Tual -- The childbirth industry : a woman's view / Margaret Stephens -- Women whisper, men kill : a case study of the Mamasani pastoral nomads of Iran / Soheila Shahshahani -- The problem of dominance / Edwin Ardener -- Women, power and authority -- Women, power and authority / Eleanor Leacock -- Women, power and authority in traditional Yoruba society / Simi Afonja -- Sex roles and dialects of survival and equality : a case study of women workers on a tea plantation in Assam / Shobhita Jain -- Sasak attitudes towards polygyny and the changing position of women in Sasak peasant villages / Ruth Krulfeld -- Women in Brazilian 'abertura' politics / Marianne Schmink -- Women in resistance and research : potential against power / Gerrit Huizer -- Women and development -- Kerala women as labourers and supervisors : implications for women and development / Joan Mencher and Deborah D'Amico -- Women in development : the case of an all-woman youth land development scheme in Malaysia / Mazidah Zakariah and Nik Safiah Karim -- From articulation to accommodation : women's movement in India / Neera Desai -- Women, production and reproduction in industrial capitalism : a comparison of Brazilian and U.S. factory workers / Helen I. Safa -- A study of Balmiki women in Delhi / Malavika Karlekar -- Changing economic roles of farm women in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / Ruža First-Dilić.

ISBN

• 0195616820
• 9780195616828

LCCN

86900016

OCLC

• ocm16003563
• 16003563
• SCSB-1706725

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library