Women among Women
Subtitle: Anthropological Perspectives on Female Age Hierarchies
Contributors: Jeanette Dickerson-Putman (Editor); Judith K Brown (Editor)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: January 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780252066832
Subjects: Anthropology; Women's studies; Ethnology And Ethnography; Sociology Of Women; Social Science; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Age factors; Cross-cultural studies; Dominance (Psychology); Social conditions; Social status; Women
First sentence: 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.