Women, state, and ideology
Subtitle: studies from Africa and Asia
By: edited by Haleh Afshar.
Contributors: Afshar, Haleh, 1944-
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions.; Women -- Developing countries -- Economic conditions.; Developing countries -- Social policy.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Women and the state in Nigeria / Carolyne Dennis; title: Women in Zimbabwe / Susie M. Jacobs and Tracey Howard; title: The state and the regulation of marriage / Penelope A. Roberts; title: Women, marriage, and the state in Iran / Haleh Afshar; title: Family and state in Malaysian industrialisation / Maila Stivens; title: Gender and population in the People's Republic of China / Delia Davin; title: Some state responses to male and female need in British India / Jocelyn Kynch; title: Contaminating states / Patricia Jeffrey, Roger Jeffrey, Andrew Lyon; title: Women and handicraft production in North India / Ann Weston; title: Front and rear / Nira Yuval-Davis; title: Controlling women's access to political power / Carole Wolkowitz; title: State, culture, and gender / Christine Pelzer-White.