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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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Review
“An accessible, personable, interesting introductory overview to the field of feminist anthropology. The familiar and friendly writing style opens students to thinking about difficult ideas, and challenging ideas, both at the emotional and intellectual levels.”
- Diana Fox, Bridgewater State College
“. . . an entry-level, comprehensive text that covers a great number of topics that are of interest to professors and students interested in gender and anthropology. I was impressed by the range of examples and visuals used.”
- Sharla Blank, Washburn University
“Thorough, user friendly, accessible”
- Sarah Orndorff, George Washington University
“A World Full of Women is a good, graspable, engaging, text for a gender based class.”
- Jessica Bodoh-Creed , California State University, Los Angeles
Synopsis
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."
Synopsis
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.
MySearchLab is a part of the Ward/Edelstein program. Research and writing tools, including access to academic journals, help students further explore the study of women. To provide students with flexibility, students can download the eText to a tablet using the free Pearson eText app.
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About the Author
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 4th edition. She resides in New Orleans with her husband and two daughters.
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