General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- SECTION ONE: WOMEN IN ISLAM AND AFRICA INTRODUCTION -- Women in Bangladesh -- The Role of Women in the Development of Culture in Nigeria -- African Women: Identity Crisis? Some Observations on Education and the Changing Role of Women in Sierra Leone and Zaire -- SECTION TWO: WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICA -- INTRODUCTION -- Female Labor and Capitalism in the United States and Brazil -- Women in Mexico -- The Mayan Woman and Change -- Marital Status and Sexual Identity: The Position of Women in a Mexican Peasant Society -- Lower Economic Sector Female Mating Patterns in the Dominican Republic: A Comparative Analysis -- The Female Domestic Servant and Social Change: Lima, Peru -- Sociocultural Factors Mitigating Role Conflict of Buenos Aires Professional Women -- Life and Labor of the Woman Textile Worker in Mexico City -- Women as Workers: The Experience of the Puerto Rican Woman in the 1930's -- Resistance as Protest: Women in the Struggle of Bolivian Tin-Mining Communities -- SECTION THREE: WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES -- INTRODUCTION -- The Economic Basis of the Status of Women -- Evolutionism and the Place of Women in the United States, 1885-1900 -- Legislation: An Aid in Eliminating Sex Bias in Education in the United States -- Discrimination Against Women in the United States: Higher Education, Government Enforcement Agencies, and Unions -- The Women's Liberation Movement in the United States -- Politics of Theory: Participant Observation in the United States -- SECTION FOUR: WOMEN IN PLANNED SOCIETIES -- INTRODUCTION -- The Role and Status of Women in the Soviet Union: 1917 to the Present -- The Women's Movement in the People's Republic of China: A Survey -- The Mobilization of Women: Three Societies -- Image and Reality: Women's Status in Israel.

Sources of the Matrilineal Family System in the Works of Carl J. L. Almqvist -- SECTION FIVE: WOMEN IN ANTHROPOLOGY -- INTRODUCTION -- Women in the Anthropology Profession - 1 -- Women in the Anthropology Profession - 2 -- Women and Fieldwork -- The Female Factor in Anthropology -- Aboriginal Woman: Male and Female Anthropological Perspectives -- Women, Knowledge, and Power -- Class, Commodity, and the Status of Women -- SECTION SIX: CONCLUSIONS -- Conclusions -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.