Women's Secrets
Bases for reproductive and social autonomy in a Mexican community
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2986259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carole H Browner (0000-0002-6754-389X, University of California, Los Angeles), Sondra T Perdue (University of California, Los Angeles) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 84-97 |
| Publication date | 1988-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.1988.15.1.02a00060 |
| OpenAlex | W2057905689 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 37 |
Research in a highland Chinantec (Mexico) community hypothesized that women there monopolized knowledge about medicinal plants for the management of reproduction, which allowed them to regulate their own fertility without male intervention. It was further hypothesized that women who most effectively exercised reproductive autonomy would function more autonomously in other areas of their social lives as well. Instead it was found that women and men shared a great deal of knowledge about plants for reproduction, that some of the most effective fertility-limiting remedies were known only by men, and that reproductive autonomy and social autonomy did not necessarily co-occur, [medical anthropology, reproduction, gender roles, Mesoamerica
Autonomy · Biology · Fertility · Geography · Limiting · Mesoamerica · Political science · Population · Reproduction · Sociology · Demography · Ecology · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law
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| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2022 (35) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |