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Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
ISBN: 9780135336137 | 0135336139
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
Pub. Date: 10/1/1996
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This reader introduces students to the most significant topics in the field of the anthropology of gender, drawing not only from classic sources but also from the most recent, diverse literature on gender roles and ideology around the world. It takes a clear, accessible approach to subject matter, making coverage appropriate for students from a variety of levels.
| Biology, Gender, And Human Evolution | |
| Gender, Aggression, and Influence, | |
| The Role of Women in Human Evolution, | |
| Gender and War: Are Women Tough Enough for Military Combat? | |
| The Case for Social Maternity: Adoption of Children by Urban Baule Women, | |
| Lifeboat Ethics: Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil | |
| The Cultural Nexus of Aka Father-Infant Bonding | |
| Gender And Prehistory | |
| Men and Women in Prehistory: An Archaeological Challenge | |
| Where Have All the Menstrual Huts Gone? The Invisibility of Menstrual Seclusion in the Late Prehistoric Southeast | |
| Diversity of the Upper Paleolithic “Venus” Figurines and Archaeological Mythology | |
| Maya Royal Women: A Lesson in Pre-Columbian History | |
| Domestic Worlds And Public Worlds | |
| The Domestic Sphere of Women and the Public World of Men: The Strengths and Limitations of an Anthropological Dichotomy, | |
| “It''s a Pleasure to Cook for Him” : Food, Mealtimes and Gender in Some South Wales Households | |
| Fatherhood and the Mediating Role of Women | |
| Why Women Rule the Roost: Rethinking Javanese Ideologies of Gender and Self-Control | |
| The Cultural Construction Of Gender And Personhood | |
| Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea | |
| The Named and the Nameless: Gender and Person in Chinese Society | |
| A Critical Appraisal of Theories of Menstrual Symbolism | |
| Culture And Sexuality | |
| Is There a Muslim Sexuality? Changing Constructions of Sexuality in Egyptian Bedouin Weddings | |
| The Manhood Puzzle | |
| Flirting in the Factory | |
| Women''s Intimate Friendships and Other Affairs: An Ethnographic Overview | |
| Equality And Inequality: The Sexual Division Of Labor And Gender Stratification | |
| Woman the Hunter: The Agta | |
| The Sexual Division of Labor on Vanatinai | |
| Divisions of Labour on Irish Family Farms | |
| Pastoral Nomadism and Gender: Status and Prestige, Economic Contribution, and Division of Labor among the Tuareg of Niger | |
| Gender, Property, And The State | |
| Thinking about Women and the Origin of the State | |
| Dowry, Bride Burning and Female Power in India, | |
| Encountering the State: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women''s Political Experience | |
| Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus | |
| Gender, Household, And Kinship | |
| Male Authority and Female Autonomy: A Study of the Matrilineal Nayers of Kerala, South India | |
| Domestic Networks: “Those You Count On,” | |
| Matrifocality, Power, and Gender Relations in Jamaica, | |
| The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship, | |
| Gender, Ritual, And Religion | |
| Spirit Possession and Gender Complementarity: Zar in Northern Sudan, | |
| “Tradition” and Threat: Women''s Obscenity in Giriama Funerary Rituals | |
| Mama Lola and the Ezilis: Themes of Mothering and Loving in Haitian Vodou | |
| Blessed Mother Ann, Holy Mother Wisdom: Gender and Divinity in Shaker Life and Belief, | |
| Gender, Politics, And Reproduction | |
| Gender and Ritual: Giving Birth the American Way, | |
| The Politics of Reproduction in a Mexican Village | |
| Surrogate Motherhood: Rethinking Biological Models, Kinship, and Family, Heléna Ragoné | |
| The Movement Against Clitoridectomy and Infibulation in Sudan: Public Health Policy and the Women''s Movement, | |
| Female Infanticide and Child Neglect in Rural North India | |
| Colonialism, Development, And The Global Economy | |
| “Aba Riots” or Igbo “Women''s War” ? Ideology, Stratification, and the Invisibility of Women, | |
| The Impact of Development on Women: The Interplay of Material Conditions and Gender Ideology, Victoria Lockwood | |
| Doing Their Homework: The Dilemma of Planning Women''s Garden Programs in Bangladesh | |
| Factory as Home and Family: Female Workers in the Moroccan Garment Industry | |
| “Wild Pigs and Dog Men” : Rape and Domestic Violence as Women''s Issues in Papua New Guinea, | |
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