This revision of A World Full of Women will appeal to instructors and students in anthropology, or any discipline looking for a global approach to the study of women. Reading this book is like sitting down for an intellectually stimulating, yet thoroughly comfortable, chat with the authors, according to one reviewer. Written by an anthropologist who has taught undergraduates for more than 30 years and designed the first official women's studies course in Louisiana, this book has been fueled by the explosion of research on women since the 1970s. A new co-author, Monica Edelstein, brings to the Fourth Edition a wealth of ethnographic experience and research with peoples of North Africa and the Middle East. Another reviewer describes this text as one of the few books that analyzes cultures through a gender lensthe book tackles and successfully dismisses many cultural-sexist illusions . . .