Gender, kinship, power : a comparative and interdisciplinary history / edited by Mary Jo Maynes [and others]
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full Text (via Taylor & Francis) |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, N.Y. :
Routledge,
1996.
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- The father, the phallus, and the seminal word: dilemmas of patrilineality in Ancient Judaism
- Blood ties and semen ties: consanguinity and agnation in Roman law
- Kinship between the lines: the patriline, the concubine and the adopted son in late imperial China
- Musings on matriliny: understandings and social relations among the Sursurunga of New Ireland
- Family trees and the construction of kinship in renaissance Italy
- Marriage and women's subjectivity in a patrilineal system: the case of early modern Bologna
- Male authority and female autonomy: a study of the matrilineal Nayars of Kerala, South India
- The limits of patriliny: kinship, gender and women's speech practices in rural North India
- Cooking inside: kinship and gender in Bangangté idioms of marriage and procreation
- Patriarcal provisions for widows and orphans in medieval London
- Work and residence of "women alone" in the context of a patrilineal system (eighteenth- and nineteenth-century northern Italy)
- Heading household and surviving in a man's world: Brazilian women in the nineteenth century
- Illegitimacy and low-wage economy in highland Austria and Jamaica
- Women and kinship in propertyless classes in western Europe in the nineteenth century
- The social construction of wife and mother: women in Porfirian Mexico, 1880-1917
- Matrifocal males: Gender, perception and experience of the domestic domain in Brazil
- The waxing and waning of matrilineality in São Paulo, Brazil: historical variations in an ambilineal system, 1500-1900
- Divorced from the land: accommodation strategies of Indian women in eighteenth-century New England
- Let's go to my place: residence, gender and power in a Mende community
- The land, the law and legitimate chilcren: thinking through gender, kinship and nation in the British Virgin Islands.