Women Among Women

by Dickerson-Putman, Jeanette; Brown, Judith K.

• ISBN13: 9780252066832
• ISBN10: 0252066839
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

Are the prerogatives of age universal? This first-ever anthropological exploration of relationships between older and younger women suggests that this may be the case. Cross-cultural in nature, the volume looks at relationships between women of different age groups in a village in Taiwan, a town in central Sudan, a rural setting in western Kenya, an Andean peasant community, a horticultural village in Melanesia, and an Aboriginal community in Australia. Adding an interspecies perspective is a study of two age groups of Japanese Macaques. Included is an ethnographic bibliography that lists books with a wealth of information on women in sixty societies. The volume will appeal not only to anthropologists but also to readers interested in women's issues, gender studies, life course studies, gerontology, and intergenerational relations.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix	(2)
Nancy Foner
Introductory Overview: Women's Age Hierarchies	xi
Jeanette Dickerson-Putman
Judith K. Brown
1. The Intersection of Class and Age: Mother-in-Law/Daughter-in-Law Relations in Rural Taiwan	1	(14)
Rita S. Gallin
2. Gender and Alliance in Central Sudan	15	(15)
Susan M. Kenyon
3. "Nowadays It Isn't Easy to Advise the Young": Grandmothers and Granddaughters among Abaluyia of Kenya	30	(22)
Maria G. Cattell
4. Women's Hierarchies of Age and Suffering in an Andean Community	52	(13)
Winifred L. Mitchell
5. Old Women at the Top: An Exploration of Age Stratification among Bena Bena Women	65	(13)
Jeanette Dickerson-Putman
6. Women's Intra-Gender Relationships and "Disciplinary Aggression" in an Australian Aboriginal Community	78	(11)
Victoria K. Burbank
7. The Nonhuman Primate Perspective: Old Age, Kinship, and Social Partners in a Monkey Society	89	(11)
Mary S. McDonald Pavelka
8. Being in Charge: Older Women and Their Younger Female Kin	100	(24)
Judith K. Brown
Perla Subbaiah
Therese Sarah
9. A Bibliography for the Cross-Cultural Study of Women's Lives	124	(17)
Judith K. Brown
Therese Sarah
Denise Pilato
Contributors	141	(2)
Index	143