Women and space : ground rules and social maps /

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Edition:Rev. ed.
Imprint:Oxford, UK ; Providence, RI, USA : Berg, 1993.
Description:ix, 236 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cross-cultural perspectives on women v. 5
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1555039
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Other authors / contributors:Ardener, Shirley
ISBN:0854967281 (pbk.)
Notes:Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1981.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Ground Rules and Social Maps for Women
  • An Introduction
  • Women and the Concept of Space/Time
  • Women's Space in a Mens's House: The British House of Commons
  • Essential Objects and the Sacred in an Urban Greek Locality
  • The Problem of Privacy in Mediterranean Anthropology
  • Sexual Prohibitions, Shared Space and Fictive Marriage in Shi'ite Iran
  • Place and Face: Of Women in Doshman Ziari, Iran
  • The Sexual Division of Domestic Space among Two Soviet Minorities
  • The Georgians and the Tadjiks
  • Spatial Domains and Women's Mobility in Yorubaland, Nigeria
  • Where Women Must Dominate: Response to Oppression in a South African Urban Community
  • Private Parts in Public Places: The Case of Actresses