Women, state, and ideology : studies from Africa and Asia /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Afshar, Haleh, 1944-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [1987]
Subjects:	Women > Developing countries > Social conditions. Women > Developing countries > Economic conditions. Developing countries > Social policy.

Table of Contents:

Women and the state in Nigeria / Carolyne Dennis
Women in Zimbabwe / Susie M. Jacobs and Tracey Howard
The state and the regulation of marriage / Penelope A. Roberts
Women, marriage, and the state in Iran / Haleh Afshar
Family and state in Malaysian industrialisation / Maila Stivens
Gender and population in the People's Republic of China / Delia Davin
Some state responses to male and female need in British India / Jocelyn Kynch
Contaminating states / Patricia Margaret Jeffery, Roger Jeffery, and Andrew Lyon
Women and handicraft production in North India / Ann Weston
Front and rear, the sexual division of labour in the Israeli Army / Nira Yuval-Davis
Controlling women's access to political power / Carole Wolkowitz
State, culture, and gender / Christine Pelzer-White.