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Title Visibility and power : essays on women in society and development / edited by Leela Dube, Eleanor Leacock, Shirley Ardener
Published Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1986

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Description l, 361 pages : map ; 23 cm
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
Analysis Society Role of women
Notes Revised version of the papers presented at the symposia, organized by IUAE Commission on Women, on the occasion of the Tenth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, held at New Delhi in 1978
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index
Includes index
Subject Feminism -- Congresses.
Feminist anthropology -- Congresses.
Women in development -- Congresses.
Women in development -- Developing countries -- Congresses.
Women -- Congresses.
Women -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Power (Social sciences) -- Congresses.
Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Women's studies -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Ardener, Shirley.
Dube, Leela.
Leacock, Eleanor Burke, 1922-1987.
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Commission on Women.
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (10th : 1978 : New Delhi, India)
LC no. 86900016
ISBN 0195616820