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Takes a cross-cultural approach to the study of women

A World Full of Women, 6/e, combines descriptive ethnography, gender theory, and international statistics to present a comprehensive picture of the lives of women. Readers will better comprehend and contextualize women’s issues and experiences in today’s world. This title explores the diversity of women’s lives from class to culture, with examples ranging from women’s work to marriage patterns, health issues, violence against women, and grassroots organizing.

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MARTHA WARD was professor of Anthropology at the University of New Orleans for 42 years. Among other activities, she taught the first course in Women’s Studies and Gender in Louisiana. She has survived the glass ceiling and academic politics, the Sexual Revolution, two marriages, Hurricane Katrina, and the intensities of motherhood ---among many similar experiences. She has done fieldwork in and published her work in Micronesia, Tirol in the Austrian-Italian Alps, on the politics of reproduction in the United States, and on health care disparities for poor women. The most recent project is a radical ethnographic and archival reconstruction of Voodoo in New Orleans, centering on the lives of its two famous practitioners, a mother and her daughter both named Marie Laveau. Post-retirement she loves on her grandchildren and her looms where she weaves in honor of the work of women through time and space.

MONICA EDELSTEIN earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Tulane University in 2001. Her research includes an investigation of spirit possession practices among Ethiopian immigrants in Israel and gendered practices in Judaism. Before earning her Ph.D., she worked as a community organizer and AIDS and reproductive rights activist in Dallas and New Orleans. She has taught anthropology courses on gender, women, Africa, and Native North America for both Tulane and the University of New Orleans and works as an anthropology subject matter expert for Pearson’s textbook publications. She has collaborated on World Full of Women since the 4^th edition. She resides in New Orleans with her husband and two daughters.

In this Section:
1) Brief Table of Contents

2) Full Table of Contents

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Chapter 1. “What’s for Dinner Honey?” Work and Gender

Chapter 2. Love and the Work of Culture

Chapter 3. Blood and Milk: Biocultural Markers in the Lives of Women

Chapter 4. Patterns of Partnering from Romance to Resistance

Chapter 5. Everyday Power: Women’s Agency, Authority, and Influence

Chapter 6. A Two-Bodied World

Chapter 7. A Third Sex?

Chapter 8. Life’s Lesions

Chapter 9. Who Owns Her Body?

Chapter 10. Invisible Workers

FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction

A World Full of Women

Gender, “Nature,” and Culture

Talking Troubles and Carrying Conversations

What Do You Think?

Chapter 1. “What’s for Dinner Honey?” Work and Gender

Work: The First Fact of Life

Hunting, Gathering, and Being Human

Planting and Harvesting: The Next Revolution

Off to Work We Go

Value, Valued, and Valuable

What Do You Think?

A Few of the Many Books You May Want to Read

Chapter 2. Love and the Work of Culture

More Than Personal Lives

The Personal Is Professional

Sex and Temperament

Daughters of Sex and Temperament

Beyond the Sepik

Intimacy and the World Stage

Conclusion: Their Last Great Work

What Do You Think?

So Many Books: Where Can I Start?

Chapter 3. Blood and Milk: Biocultural Markers in the Lives of Women

Moonstruck Maidenhood: Taboo and Meaning

Desire and Control

Comparative Childbirth

From Blood to Milk

Prime Time or Dirty Old Ladies

Social Women in Biological Bodies: Some Conclusions

What Do You Think?

Some Very Important Books to Read

Chapter 4. Patterns of Partnering from Romance to Resistance

Varieties of Arrangements

Love, Marriage, and Lavish Weddings

Nuclear Family Meltdown

What Do You Think?

Reading from Romance to Resistance

Chapter 5. Everyday Power: Women’s Agency, Authority, and Influence

Rethinking Women’s Power

Migrants, Immigrants, and Refugees: Crossing the Boundaries of Domestic Power

Conclusions from One End of the Power Spectrum to the Other

What Do You Think?

Powerful Books to Read

Chapter 6. A Two-Bodied World

Cultural Systems for Separating Females and Males

Amazon: Women of the Forest and the Flutes

Melanesia: Birth and Semen

Islamic Middle East: Veiled Separations

Conclusions: What Do Systems of Separation Mean?

What Do You Think?

Check Out These Books

Chapter 7. A Third Sex?

Gender as Alternative or Continuum

Making Out and Making Up Sexes and Genders

Crossing Over and Cross-Dressing

Intersexed Children: A Case for Consideration

When Boys Will Be Girls

Two-Spirits in Native North America

A Fourth Sex? Transgender Females

Women Loving Women

Conclusions beyond the Categories of Sex, Gender, and Desire

Important Books beyond the National Attitude

Chapter 8. Life’s Lesions

Suffering and Healing

Women’s Wounds

Paths to Authority

Gendering Religions

Healers and Healing

Visiting Spirits

To Conclude

What Do You Think?

A Field Full of Books to Read

Chapter 9. Who Owns Her Body?

Challenges to Cultural Relativism

Human Rights and Cultural Relativism

The “Nature” of Violence

A Worldwide Case: Wife Beating and Wife Battering

Another Worldwide Case: International Sexual Services

Case Study Number 1: Rape on a University Campus

Case Study Number 2: Disappeared and Endangered Daughters

Case Study Number 3: Genital Cutting

Women’s Rights and Critical Cultural Relativism

What Do You Think?

Books to Empower Us

Chapter 10. Invisible Workers

Women as the Earth’s Last Colony

Characteristics of Women’s Lives in the Last Colony

International Strategies for Solving the Problem(s) of Women

A Marxist-Feminist Thinks about Women and Work

Women’s Powers as the Roots of Grass

Conclusions in the Post-Modern Manner

What Do You Think?

Reading, Writing, and Resistance

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