Cultural dynamics of women's lives

• Other Authors: Bastos, Ana Cecilia de Sousa (Editor), Uriko, Kristiina (Editor), Valsiner, Jaan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2012]
• Series: Advances in cultural psychology.
• Subjects: Women > Cross-cultural studies.; Women > Social conditions > Cross-cultural studies.; Sex role > Cross-cultural studies.; Women > Identity > Cross-cultural studies.; Social Science > Women's Studies.; Gender studies: women and girls.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806615391
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-61735-562-2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 627 pages) : illustrations

This book explores the diverse landscapes wherein women struggle for their personal and social identities and lives, between biology and culture, destiny and choice, shared and individual worlds, tradition and modernity. Their "peripheral lives" have "central meaning" (Chaudhary,...