Women and Space

Mrs Shirley Ardener Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women,University of Oxford

• Contents: S. Ardener, Ground Rules and Social Maps for Women: An Introduction - S.L. Skar, Andean Women and the Concept of Space/Time - S. Rodgers, Women's Space in a Mens's House: The British House of Commons - R. Hirschon, Essential Objects and the Sacred in an Urban Greek Locality - L. Sciama, The Problem of Privacy in Mediterranean Anthropology - J. Khatib-Chahidi, Sexual Prohibitions, Shared Space and Fictive Marriage in Shi'ite Iran - S. Wright, Place and Face: Of Women in Doshman Ziari, Iran - T. Dragadze, The Sexual Division of Domestic Space among Two Soviet Minorities: The Georgians and the Tadjiks - H. Callaway, Spatial Domains and Women's Mobility in Yorubaland, Nigeria - R. Ridd, Where Women Must Dominate: Response to Oppression in a South African Urban Community - J. Blair, Private Parts in Public Places: The Case of Actresses

'... fascinating in the variety of accounts of the different settings in and through which women experience the world.'Journal of Environmental Psychology