Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments for the Revised Edition -- Introduction to the Revised Edition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ethnographic Sketch -- 3. Female Labor and the Family -- 4. Female Traders -- 5. Cottage Industry -- 6. Women and Men -- 7. Women and...

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