Machine derived contents note: Preface - Leela Dube -- Part One: The Cultural Matrix -- Introduction - Maithreyi Krishnaraj -- Differential Socialisation of Boys and Girls in Some Lower Castes or Communities of Ahmedabad - Usha Knahere -- Gender Creation from Birth to Adolescence in Rural Bangladesh - K M A Aziz -- Seclusion of Women and the Structure of Caste - Kamla Ganesh -- Family Status-Production Work - Hanna Papanek -- Women's Contribution to Social Mobility and Class Differentiation -- Women Agricultural Labourers and Land Owners in Kerala and Tamil Nadu - Joan P Mencher -- Some Questions About Gender and Autonomy in the Household -- Part Two: The Gender Dimension Of Health -- Introduction - Karuna Chanana -- Competence and Care for Women - Meera Chatterjee -- Health Policy Perspectives in the Household Context -- Son Preference - Barbara D Miller -- The Household and a Public Health Programme in North India -- The Household-State Interface - Nazmunnessa Mahtab -- Health, Education and Nutrition of Rural Women in Bangladesh -- The Socio - Cultural Context of Childbirth in Rural Bangladesh - Shamima Islam
Analysis
Asian women Social conditions
South Asia
Notes
Collection of papers from the Regional Conference for Asia on Women and the Household, held in New Delhi from Jan. 27-31, 1985, sponsored jointly by the Commission on Women of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Research Committee 32 "Women in Society" of the International Sociological Association, and the Indian Association for Women's Studies