Women and kinship : comparative perspectives on gender in South and South-East Asia
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| Title: | Women and kinship : comparative perspectives on gender in South and South-East Asia |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Dube, Leela |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Gender identity--Southeast Asia, Kinship--Southeast Asia, Sex role--Southeast Asia, Sex role--South Asia, Kinship--South Asia, Women--South Asia, Women--Southeast Asia, Gender identity--South Asia, Women--South Asia--Social conditions, Women--Southeast Asia--Social conditions |
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| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9789280809220 9780585225432 |
