General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE: REPRODUCTION -- Reproduction: Introductory Notes -- Socialization of Non-Human Primate Females: A Brief Overview -- Prenatal Hormones and Human Behavior: Implications for the Status of Women -- Spontaneous and Induced Abortion in Human and Non-Human Primates -- Birth Rituals in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Some Practical Applications -- The Relevance of Nourishment to the Reproductive Cycle of the Female in India -- Nutrition and Pregnancy -- Defining Marriage Cross-Culturally -- Matrescence, Becoming a Mother, A "New/Old" Rite de Passage -- Matri-Patrilocality and the Birth of the First Child -- Affectivity and Instrumentality in Friendship Patterns among American Women -- An Explanation for Matrilocal Residence -- SECTION TWO: WOMEN AND POWER -- Women and Power: Introductory Notes -- Women and Domestic Power: Political and Economic Strategies in Domestic Groups -- A Note on a Feminine Factor in Cultural History -- Non-Hierarchical, Hierarchical, and Masked Reciprocity in the Arab Village -- Bundu: Political Implications of Female Solidarity in a Secret Society -- Three Styles of Domestic Authority : A Cross-Cultural Study -- A Review of the Women's Movement in the United States -- American Women in Politics: Culture, Structure, and Ideology -- SECTION THREE: SOCIAL TRENDS -- Social Trends: Introductory Notes -- The Eurogallegas : Female Spanish Migration -- Attitudes towards Reproduction in a Rapidly Changing African Society -- The Concepts of "Femininity" and "Liberation" in the Context of Changing Sex-Roles: Women in Modern India and America -- Vietnamese Women: Their Roles and Their Options -- Changing Roles of Women in Two African Muslim Cultures -- Women and Social Customs within the Family: A Case Study of Attitudes in Kerala, India.

Some Remarks on the Legal Equality between Men and Women -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.