ABSTRACT

Takes a cross-cultural approach to the study of women
A World Full of Women, 6/e, combines descriptive ethnography, gender theory, and international statistics to present a comprehensive picture of the lives of women. Readers will better comprehend and contextualize women’s issues and experiences in today’s world. This title explores the diversity of women’s lives from class to culture, with examples ranging from women’s work to marriage patterns, health issues, violence against women, and grassroots organizing.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

chapter |21 pages

“What's for Dinner Honey?”

Work and Gender

chapter |22 pages

Love and the Work of Culture

Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead

chapter |27 pages

Blood and Milk

Biocultural Markers in the Lives of Women

chapter |22 pages

Patterns of Partnering

From Romance to Resistance

chapter |20 pages

Everyday Power

Women's Agency, Authority, and Influence

chapter |19 pages

A Two-Bodied World

Cultural Systems for Separating Females and Males

chapter |22 pages

A Third Sex?

Gender as Alternative or Continuum

chapter |21 pages

Life's Lesions

Suffering and Healing

chapter |22 pages

Who Owns Her Body?

Challenges to Cultural Relativism

chapter |25 pages

Invisible Workers

Women as the Earth's Last Colony