This volume presents important essays inspired by the pioneering works of three leading women anthropologists. The title may therefore be read in more than one way.

Mrs Shirley Ardener Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women,University of Oxford

Contents: S. Ardener, Persons and Powers of Women: An Introduction - J. Gladstone, Audrey I. Richards (1899-1984): Africanist, Humanist - C. Berndt and E.M.Chilver, Phyllis Kaberry (1910-1977): Fieldworker among Friends - E. Croll, Barbara E. Ward (1919-1983): Sex Roles and Conscious Models - P. Caplan, Engendering Knowledge: The Politics of Ethnography - J. La Fontaine, The Persons of Women - E.M. Chilver, Women Cultivators, Cows and Cash Crops in Cameroon - C. Ifeka, The Mystical and Political Powers of Queen Mothers, Kings and Commoners - A. Wong, Sex Roles, Lifecycle Stages, Social Networks and Community Development in Singapore - C. Humphrey, Women and Ideology in Hierarchical Societies in East Asia