Defining females
Subtitle: the nature of women in society
By: edited by Shirley Ardener.
Contributors: Ardener, Shirley.; University of Oxford. Women's Studies Committee.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Women -- Social conditions -- Addresses, essays, lectures.; Women -- Physiology -- Addresses, essays, lectures.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
"A Halsted Press book."
Table of contents: value: Hastrup, K. The semantics of biology: virginity.; value: Hirschon, R. Open body/closed space: the transformation of female sexuality.; value: Humphrey, C. Women, taboo, and the suppression of attention.; value: Okely, J. Privileged, schooled, and finished: boarding education for girls.; value: James, W. Matrifocus on African women.; value: Callaway, H. The most essentially female function of all: giving birth.; value: Newcombe, F. and Ratcliffe, G. The female brain.; value: Callan, H. Harems and overlords.