Women among Women
Anthropological Perspectives on Female Age Hierarchies
by Jeanette Dickerson-Putman and Judith K. Brown
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Are the prerogatives of age universal? This first-ever anthropological exploration of relationships between older and younger women suggests that this may be the case.
Cross-cultural in nature, the volume looks at relationships between women of different age groups in a village in Taiwan, a town in central Sudan, a rural setting in western Kenya, an Andean peasant community, a horticultural village in Melanesia, and an Aboriginal community in Australia. Adding an interspecies perspective is a study of two age groups of Japanese macaque monkeys. Included is an ethnographic bibliography that lists books with a wealth of information on women in sixty societies.
The volume will appeal not only to anthropologists but also to readers interested in women's issues, gender studies, life-course studies, gerontology, and intergenerational relations.
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Women among Women: Anthropological Perspectives on Female Age Hierarchies
January 1, 1998, University of Illinois Press
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Women among women: anthropological perspectives on female age hierarchies
1998, University of Illinois Press
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"This paper compares relations between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law at two points of time in a Taiwanese village which has changed over the past 30 years from an economic system based almost entirely on agriculture to one founded predominantly on off-farm employment."
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