TY - BOOK AU - Wolf, Margery TI - Women and the family in rural Taiwan SN - 804708088 AV - HQ 1740.5 .W65 1972 PY - 1972/// CY - Stamford, Connecticut PB - Stanford University Press KW - WOMEN -- TAIWAN N1 - Includes index; Some history and some geography -- The Ongs of Peihotein -- Uterine families and the Women's community -- Friends and neighbors -- Little girls -- Older girls -- Engagement -- Marriage -- Waiting -- Taking charge -- Girls who marry their brothers -- Girls who have no brothers -- Filial daughters -- The rewards of old age -- index N2 - Studies of Chinese society commonly emphasize men's roles and functions, a not unreasonable approach to a society with patrilineal kinship structure. This book seeks to fill some of these gaps by examining the ways rural Taiwanese women manipulate men and each other in the pursuit of their personal goals ER -