1st Edition
Persons and Powers of Women in Diverse Cultures
Edited By Shirley Ardener
Copyright 1992
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume presents important essays inspired by the pioneering works of three leading women anthropologists. The title may therefore be read in more than one way. The three biographical essays in this volume as well as the comprehensive bibliographies of these anthropologists' works fully confirm the high esteem in which their remarkable personalities are held to this day and offer material... Read more
Contents: S. Ardener, Persons and Powers of Women: An Introduction - J. Gladstone, Audrey I. Richards (1899-1984): Africanist, Humanist - C. Berndt and E.M.Chilver, Phyllis Kaberry (1910-1977): Fieldworker among Friends - E. Croll, Barbara E. Ward (1919-1983): Sex Roles and Conscious Models - P. Caplan, Engendering Knowledge: The Politics of Ethnography - J. La Fontaine, The Persons of Women - E.M. Chilver, Women Cultivators, Cows and Cash Crops in Cameroon - C. Ifeka, The Mystical and Political Powers of Queen Mothers, Kings and Commoners - A. Wong, Sex Roles, Lifecycle Stages, Social Networks and Community Development in Singapore - C. Humphrey, Women and Ideology in Hierarchical Societies in East Asia
Biography
Mrs Shirley Ardener Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women,University of Oxford
