Subject(s): Sex role -- Gender identity -- Caste and Women -- Leela Bube -- Women's world- three encounters, on the construction of gender - socialization of Hindu girls in patrilineal India, seed and earth- symbolism of biological reproduction and sexual relations of production, caste and women, who gains from matriliny- men, women and change on Lakshadweep island, kinship and gender in south and southeast Asia- patterns and contrasts