1. Woman’s worlds—three encounters.

2. On the construction of gender: socialization of Hindu girls in Patrilineal India.

3. Seed and earth: the symbolism of biological reproduction and sexual relations of production.

4. Caste and women.

5. Who gains from Matriliny? Men, women, and change on a Lakshadweep Island.

6. Kinship and gender in South and Southeast Asia: patterns and contrasts.

Index. "In their central concerns, anthropology and sociology in India have lacked a consistent gender perspective.

Women’s issues and gender relations are usually kept confined to a separate niche. Conversely, women’s collective actions (movements) and feminism, while drawing much needed attention to women’s issues, tend to err on the opposite side of exclusivism.

In Anthropological Explorations in Gender, Leela Dube addressed a range of interrelated themes in a study of gender, kinship, and culture, by bringing together extensive fieldwork, personal (less)