| Description |
ix, 374 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 Bangangte 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 S~ao 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. |
| Subject |
Kinship -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Sex role -- Cross-cultural studies
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Families -- Cross-cultural studies
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| Added Author |
Maynes, Mary Jo.
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| ISBN |
0415912989 (pbk. : alk. paper) : $19.95 |
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0415912970 (hb : alk. paper) : $65.00 |
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