Woman, culture, and society - Rosaldo, Michelle Zimbalist; Lamphere, Louise; Bamberger, Joan; Chodorow, Nancy; Collier, Jane Fishburne; Denich, Bette S.; Hoffer, Carol P.; Leis, Nancy B.; O'Laughlin, Bridget; Ortner, Sherry B.; Paul, Lois; Sacks, Karen; et al. (Stanford, California Stanford University Press, 1974)
Introduction / Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere -- Woman, culture, and society: a theoretical overview / Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo -- Family structure and feminine personality / Nancy Chodorow -- Is female to male as nature is to culture? / Sherry B. Ortner -- Women in politics / Jane Fishburne Collier -- Strategies, cooperation, and conflict among women in domestic groups / Louise Lamphere -- Sex roles and survival strategies in an urban Black community / Carol B. Stack -- Matrifocality in Indonesia and Africa and among Black Americans / Nancy Tanner -- Chinese women: old skills in a new context / Margery Wolf -- Madam Yoko: ruler of the Kpa Mende Confederacy / Carol P. Hoffer -- Female status in the public domain / Peggy R. Sanday -- Engels revisited: women, the organization of production, and private property / Karen Sacks -- Women in groups: Ijaw Women's Associations / Nancy B. Leis -- Sex and power in the Balkans / Bettle S. Denich -- The myth of matriarchy: why men rule in primitive society / Joan Bamberger -- The mastery of work and the mystery of sex in a Guatemalan village / Lois Paul -- Meditation of contradiction: why Mbum women do not eat chicken / Bridget O'Laughlin.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-339) and index.
Keywords: Woman -- History; Women -- Social conditions