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BOOK REVIEWS Leonore Loeb Adler (ed.), Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective. New York: Praeger, 1991, pp. 296, $ 45.00 (cloth). This book provides a profile of women in a large range of societies from tribal situations to highly urbanised, modern, industrialised ones. A glance at the seventeen chapter headings illustrates something of the variety it contains. There are chapters on women in the US and Canada, Latin America, Great Britain, China, India and Australia. On a very much smaller scale, Western Samoa represents Polynesian women living in the Pacific Islands, while the Tharu have been closen to exemplify tribal women and provide a contrast with Hindu Indian women. The book also includes chapters on women in Alaska, Israel, Thailand and Nigeria. The book is very ambitious in scope and suffers from organisational problems as a result. The organisational problems relate partly to the choice of "societies", and partly to the variability of women's experience within each social unit. Some of the societies dealt with are anything but homogeneous in terms of ethnicity and religion, rural or urban location and socioeconomic status. All of these variables are important predictors of women's status. For instance, the first chapter is called "Women
International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1994
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