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1. Introduction -- 1. Chaotic Female Sexuality -- 2. Positive Female Images -- 3. Women in Ritual and Symbolic Roles -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- I Women and Divinity -- 2. The Bride of Christ Is Filled with His Spirit -- 3. Célibes, Mothers, and Church Cockroaches: Religious Participation of Women in a Mexican Village -- 4. To Honor Her Head: Hats as a Symbol of Women's Position in Three Evangelical Churches in Edinburgh, Scotland -- 5. Coming of Age in Kelton: The Constraints on Gender Symbolism in Jewish Ritual -- 6. The Misery of the Embodied: Representations of Women in Sinhalese Myth -- II Dual Aspects of Women: Archetypic Nurturance -- 7. Careers of Midwives in a Mayan Community -- 8. Southern Lay Midwives as Ritual Specialists -- 9. Epidemiology of Spirit Possession among the Luvale of Zambia -- 10. Convivial Sisterhood: Spirit Mediumship and Client-Core Network among Black South African Women -- 11. Bobbes and Zeydes: Old and New Roles for Elderly Jews -- III Dual Aspects of Women: Archetypic Destruction -- 12. Radical Yoruba Female Sexuality: The Witch and the Prostitute -- 13. Jive Dope Fiend Whoes: In the Street and in Rehabilitation.

SummaryThis paper examines the effect of age at first marriage, number of wives and type of marital union on fertility among Yoruba females in Western Nigeria. The evidence indicates that age at first marriage and hunband's number of wives do not have a significant effect on completed fertility. Type of marital union, on the other hand, seems to have an effect on fertility. Women in de facto unions experience lower fertility than women in formal marriages.

The experiences of two groups of Yoruba women in Ru Nigeria who tried to organize themselves along modern cooperative lines are traced. The progress of the first group, which tried to adhere to government regulations, is compared to that of the second, which molded its own rules. Cohesion, personal development, & financial growth were found to be greater in the self-regulating group. Implications for cooperative policy are discussed. HA.

SummaryThe data in this paper are drawn from interviews with a stratified probability sample of 2996 Yoruba men and women aged 17 or above living in Lagos and Western States in June–July 1973. Although drawing upon other material from the 1 ½-hour interviews the discussion concentrates upon the family size ideals of these individuals. In addition to the customary measures of ideal family size, new measures of the limits of acceptable family size are described, together with the reactions of the whole sample to a wide range of statements relating to family size and the value of children. It is shown that the smallest family which would be acceptable to any appreciable proportion of the population is four children, which would be acceptable to 18% of all respondents. Comparative data from elsewhere in the developing world are presented to show that African family size ideals are amongst the highest in the world. Age, educational and occupational differentials in perceptions of different family sizes are also discussed.