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Author Dube, Leela.

Title Women and kinship : comparative perspectives on gender in South and South-East Asia / by Leela Dube
Published Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, 1997

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Description x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 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
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
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 169-210
Subject Gender identity -- Southeast Asia.
Gender identity -- Asia.
Gender identity -- South Asia.
Kinship -- Southeast Asia.
Kinship -- South Asia.
Women -- Asia -- Social conditions.
Kinship -- Asia.
Women -- Southeast Asia -- Social conditions.
Women -- South Asia.
Women -- Southeast Asia.
Author United Nations University.
LC no. 00708668
ISBN 8170366186
9280809229 (paperback)
Other Titles Women and kinship : comparative perspectives on gender in South and South-East Asia