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Part I. The Female World -- The Female World: A Global Perspective / Jessie Bernard -- The Significance Of Death Motifs In Women's Folkore / Aili Nenola-kallio -- Sex Differences And The Experiences Of The Physical Environments / Måria Nordström -- Women's Territoriality In The Home / Arza Churchman And Rachel Sebba -- Women's Worlds: Ghetto, Refuge, Or Power Base? / Florence L. Denmark -- Part Ii. Holding Up The Sky -- Women In Rural Societies: An Overview Of The State Of The Scholarship / Naomi Nevo -- Women And Technological Change In The Informal Urban Economy: A Zambian Case Study / Bennett Jules-rosette -- The Domestic Economy-half Of Canada's Work: Now You See It, Now You Don't / Martin Meissner -- Male And Female Career Ladders In Nigerian Academia / Eleanor R. Fapohunda -- The Allocation Of Money Within The Family / Jan Pahl -- Housework Versus Employment: Quality Of Working Life And Psychological Well-being Among Irish Married Women / Margret Fine-davis -- Part Iii. The Darker Side -- Sex Differences In Intelligence Tests Performance Of Jewish And Arab School Children In Israel / Amia Lielich -- Some Aspects Of Feminism In The South African Context / Gill Straker -- Similarities Between Humor Responses Of Men And Women And Israeli Jews And Arabs / Ofra Nevo -- Personal Appearance And Social Control / Rhoda Kesler Unger -- Sexual Harassment In The U.s. Federal Work Force / Sandra S. Tangri, Martha R. Burt, And Leonor B. Johnson -- Contemporary Pornography As A Contributor To Sexual Offenses Against Women / John H. Court -- Women Who Kill Their Batterers / Anne Jones -- Part Iv. Earth Tremors -- Women's Liberation In Japan: What Does Modernization Mean For Women? / Ikuko Atsumi -- Political Women: The Zambian Experience / Isla Schuster -- The New York Women's Suffrage Movement: Ethnicity And Feminist Politics / Elinor Lerner -- Stereotypes About The Influenceability Of Women / Alice Hendrickson Eagly -- Women's Nonverbal Behavior: Underlying Assumptions In T