Bücher der Reihe Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women

A study of contraception, containing contributions by experts in contraception, family planning and reproductive health. They examine the social, economic, political and cultural contexts in which contraceptive providers and recipients make decisions about what forms of contraception to use.

A collection of essays giving case studies of female labour in historical and contemporary plantations in different parts of the world. The book aims to provide a close understanding of women workers and the socio-economic systems of plantations in a variety of New and Old World settings.

This work describes and analyzes the new phase of women's organizing in China, which started in the 1980s, and remains a vital force to the present day.

All over the world, financial and economic development institutions are considering how best to give women access to credit. This book explores the ways and means of achieving this goal through a close examination of programmes, placing women's economic roles in a broad historical perspective.

This collection of essays explore women missionaries and the effect of Christian missionary activity upon women. It looks at 19th-century missionaries, at the backgrounds and experience of women in the missions and at the attitudes of missionary societies towards their female workers.

This volume of case studies examines ROSCAs on a worldwide basis, and should be of interest to anyone studying or concerned with anthropology, economics, women's issues and especially the welfare of the less developed countries and immigrant communities in "the West".

Why do so many people feel compelled to take drugs? And why do so many men drink and so many women refrain? Using ideas from social anthropology, this book attempts to answer these questions.

This volume presents important essays inspired by the pioneering works of three leading women anthropologists. The title may therefore be read in more than one way.

An exploration of the ways in which healthcare models are socially constructed, this text explores questions involving the changing relationship between patient care and medical ethics. The practicalities of nursing and family healthcare are examined.

Counters the prevailing Western views and stereotypes of Muslim women by presenting a cross-cultural perspective of their experiences and choices. The main theme running through these papers is the manner in which they consciously and unconsciously manipulate religious belief to negotiate their gender roles within the context of their lives.

Focuses on the relationship of women and space, and using the idea of "social maps". This book presents ethnographic evidence which shows how space must be seen in both its physical dimensions, and in its social and symbolic aspects, as experienced by women.

With the creation of the modern nation-state in the Middle East and North Africa, women have been and continue to be manipulated to represent a cultural ideal of perfect womanhood.

The papers in this volume, based on a seminar series at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women in Oxford, describe the experiences of women in various parts of the world who have found themselves alienated from their original homes as migrants or refugees.

There is a renewed global commitment to 'water for all'. Yet even though women are usually responsible for domestic water provision, their needs and voices continue to be marginalized in the development process.

This book studies women's language use in bilingual or multi-lingual cultural situations. The authors - social anthropologists, language teachers, and interpreters cover a wide variety of geographical and linguistic situations, from the death of Gaelic in the Outer Hebrides, to the use of Spanish by Quechua and Aymara women in the Andes.

This volume offers an "ethnography" of breast-feeding by examining cultural norms and practices in a number of European and non-European societies.

Aims to increase awareness of the importance of women agricultural producers to African material development and to expose the western biases that have traditionally pervaded the study of rural African women. This book includes an analysis of conventional research methodology.

This text examines the interface between the lived, personal experiences of people in cross-cultural marriages and wider socio-political issues. The marriages discussed are from a range of cultures and classes.

Seeks to redress inaccuracies in Western perceptions of gender relations in Southeast Asia by bringing to the fore the area's ethnic and cultural variance. This title shows how women and men explain the informal and psychological dimensions of relationships as vital in holding family, neighbourhood and kinship ties together.

These essays consider the structural position of women, how they are defined by reference to biology and social markers, and how they are required to behave, and present and assess certain theories about women by anthropologists, sociologists, ethologists, and psychologists.