women
Abortions among the Fipa
A news story in the Daily News from Tanzania on January 24 analyzed the sexual health and reproductive rights of women and girls in Tanzania with a special focus on the Fipa people. While the Fipa are not identified as such, the opening example narrates the traumas of a girl who recently had an abortion […]
Marriages of Nubian Women
While some Nubian women are leaving their families and villages for education and jobs, many remain and continue to follow the old customs—and to marry Nubian men. A feature in the Middle Eastern news and analysis website Al-Monitor last week explored with some Nubian women the options for marriages today. The journalist pointed out that […]
Hutterite Woman Runs a Half-Marathon
Although Hutterite women are known for wearing modest blouses and ankle-length skirts, when one woman participated in an athletic event last week in Winnipeg while dressed in her traditional clothing, people apparently noticed. According to the Winnipeg Sun on June 20, an 18-year old Hutterite woman from the Crystal Spring colony near Ste. Agathe, Manitoba, […]
Zapotec Godmothers Keep the Peace [anthology chapter review]
Zapotec villagers may anticipate occasional violence from men who are drinking, but when fights do break out everyone expects the women, particularly the godmothers, to restore order. Nicole Sault, in a recent paper, describes the Zapotec style of peacemaking as part of a broader system of beliefs in respect, cooperation, and responsibility. Respect, she indicates, […]
Developing Skills and Confidence of Older Amish Women [journal article review]
Quilting, for Amish women, provides many personal benefits to the quilters, such as venues for expressing artistic creativity, justification for social activity, and satisfaction about contributions to family economies. Although quilting lost its popularity for much of American society in the middle of the 20th century, it never lost its appeal among very traditional cultures […]
Two Ladakhi Women Hope to Climb Everest
The selection of two young Ladakhi women to participate in an upcoming expedition to Mount Everest adds to the history of gender equality and mountaineering experience in that society. The two “girls,” as they were styled in an article last week in NewKerala.com, spent four months training at the National Institute of Mountaineering, located in […]
Piaroa Women Cultivate Manioc for Food, Status, and Respect [journal article review]
Piaroa women gain fulfillment, pleasure, and respect from raising manioc in their gardens, one anthropologist argues, and this work is essential to their society. In her recent article “Tedium and Creativity: The Valorization of Manioc Cultivation and Piaroa Women,” published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute volume 10, 2004, p.241-259, Serena L. Heckler […]
