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Women and Men in World Cultures
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Section I: Looking at the Past for Clues to the Future
Chapter I: Origins: The Searching for the Essence of a Gendered Humanity?
Chapter II: Histories: Cultural Lessons from the Past?

Section II: Making a Living: An Organization of Culture and Society
Chapter III: Gender Equality?: A Foraging Way of Life
Chapter IV: Seeds of Gender Inequality?: Horticultural and Pastoral Societies
Chapter V: Inherent Gender Inequality?: Stratified Societies
Chapter VI: Formal Structure, Formal Inequality?: Diversity in the State and Global Societies

Section III: Issues of Gender
Chapter VII: Wife, Mother, Sister, Daughter: Gender in the Family
Chapter VIII: Power and Powerlessness: Gender and Political Control
Chapter IX: A Cosmological Plan?: Gender and the Supernatural
Chapter X: Colonialism, Transnationalism and Development: Gendered Realities
Chapter XI: An After Word: Dealing with Gendered and Sexed Dualities





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