Women and kinship : comparative perspectives on gender in South and South-East Asia / Leela Dube.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Dube, Leela.

Contributor:

United Nations University.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity--South Asia.

Gender identity.

Gender identity--Southeast Asia.

Kinship--South Asia.

Kinship.

Kinship--Southeast Asia.

Women--South Asia.

Women.

Women--Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Place of Publication:

Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first sustained effort to compare South and South-East Asia in respect of the situation of women. Arguing that kinship systems provide an important context in which gender relations are located, the study looks at three types of kinship system, found in their various forms in the two regions of Asia - predominantly patrilineal South Asia and predominantly bilateral South-East Asia, with a presence of matriliny in both.

Contents:

""Women and kinship: Perspectives on gender in South and South-East Asia""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Kinship and family organization""; ""3 Group membership, inheritance, and resource distribution""; ""4 The management of female sexuality""; ""5 The seclusion of women""; ""6 Bodily processes and limitations on women""; ""7 Women and living spaces""; ""8 Residence""; ""9 Marriage""; ""10 Nutrition and discrimination""; ""11 Gender and education""; ""12 Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Appendix""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-210) and index.

ISBN:

81-7036-618-6

0-585-22543-5

OCLC:

923704360