Women and space : ground rules and social maps /
edited by Shirley Ardener.
- Revised edition.
- ix, 236 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Cross-cultural perspectives on women v. 5 .
- Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; v. 5. .
Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1981.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-230) and index.
Preface -- Ground Rules and Social Maps for Women: An Introduction -- Andean Women and the Concept of Space/Time -- Women's Space in a Men's House: The British House of Commons -- Essential Objects and the Sacred: Interior and Exterior Space in an Urban Greek Locality -- The Problem of Privacy in Mediterranean Anthropology -- Sexual Prohibitions, Shared Space and 'Fictive' Marriages 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 -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
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Women--Social conditions Personal space Space perception--Social aspects Interpersonal relations.