Contents:Women, culture, and society: a theoretical overview / Michelle Zimblast 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 / Bette 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 --
Mediation of contradiction: why Mbum women do not eat chicken / Bridget O'Laughlin.
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