Toward an Anthropology of Women

Contents: Introduction/Rayna R. Reiter. 1. Perspectives on the Evolution of Sex Differences/Lila Leibowitz. 2. Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology/Sally Slocum. 3. The Origin of the Family/Kathleen Gough. 4. Kung Women: Contrasts in Sexual Egalitarianism in Foraging and Sedentary Contexts/Patricia Draper. 5. Aboriginal Woman: Male and Female Anthropological Perspectives/Rubby Rohrlich-Leavitt, Barbara Sykes, and Elizabeth Weatherford. 6. The Concept of Pollution Among the Kafe of the Papua New Guinea Highlands/Elizabeth Faithorn. 7. Matriarchy: A Vision of Power/Paula Webster. 8. The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political Economy of Sex/Gayle Rubin. 9. Engels Revisited: Women, the Organization of Production, and Private Property/Karen Sacks. 10. Iroquois Women: An Ethnohistoric Note/Judith K Brown. 11. Men and Women in the South of France: Public and Private Domains/Rayna R Reiter. 12. Women and Words in a Spanish Village/Susan Harding. 13. The Life Crisis as a Clue to Social Function: The Case of Italy/Sydel F Silverman. 14. Love Unites Them and Hunger Separates Them: Poor Women in the Dominican Republic/Susan E Brown. 15. The Spread of Capitalism in Rural Colombia: Effects on Poor Women/Anna Rubbo. 16. Underdevelopment and the Experience of Women: A Nigerian Case Study/Dorothy Remy. 17. Collectivization, Kinship, and the Status of Women in Rural China/Norma Diamond. Bibliography.