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      A World Full of Women

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      A World Full of Women book

      ByMartha Ward, Monica Edelstein
      Edition 6th Edition
      First Published 2014
      eBook Published 27 October 2015
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315662220
      Pages 288
      eBook ISBN 9781315662220
      Subjects Social Sciences
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      Ward, M., & Edelstein, M. (2014). A World Full of Women (6th ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315662220

      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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      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
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