Description: Second, Revised EditionTo what are we referring when we speak of women? What is the nature of women in society; what is the nature of women in society? These are the central questions of this classic text which looks at areas ranging from England and Greece to Mongolia and Africa.
Brief description:
Mrs. Shirley Ardener is at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, University of Oxford.
Review Quotes:
"...useful to anyone interested in the cross-cultural study of women, anthropologically, geographically or politically." --Newsletter of the African Studies Association of Australia and the Pacific
"... [a] historiographic landmark in feminist cultural analysis." --Gender, Place and Culture