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Women and Kinship

Comparative Perspective on Gender in South and South-East Asia

  • Author: UNU
  • Publication date: May 1997
  • Page count: 224
  • Language(s) in this book: English
  • Sales number: 96.III.A.31

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This is the first sustained effort to work out a comparison between South and Southeast Asia in respect of the situation of women. Arguing that kinship systems provide an important context in which gender relations are located, the study looks at three types of kinship system, found in their various forms in the two regions of Asia: predominantly patrilineal South Asia and predominantly bilateral Southeast Asia, with a presence of matriliny in both. Rich in information and insights, this important book fills a gap in gender studies at the same time as it challenges facile generalizations and provokes probing into apparently similar phenomena.