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Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective

ISBN: 9780131849716 | 0131849719
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Anthropology of Gender, Sociology of Women, Introduction to Women's Studies, and Gender Roles.This reader introduces students to the most significant topics in the field of 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 the subject matter, making coverage appropriate for students from a variety of levels.
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Prefacexiii
About the Authorxv
I. Biology, Gender, and Human Evolution
1(48)
Animal Models and Gender
7(9)
Marlene Zuk
The Role of Women in Human Evolution
16(8)
Margaret Ehrenberg
Gender and War: Are Women Tough Enough for Military Combat?
24(10)
Lucinda J. Peach
Lifeboat Ethics: Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil
34(3)
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
The Cultural Nexus of Aka Father--Infant Bonding
37(12)
Barry S. Hewlett
II. Gender and Prehistory
49(32)
The Archaeology of Gender Today: New Vistas, New Challenges
53(10)
Margaret W. Conkey
Where Have All the Menstrual Huts Gone? The Invisibility of Menstrual Seclusion in the Late Prehistoric Southeast
63(11)
Patricia Galloway
Warriors and Rulers: Royal Women of the Classic Maya
74(7)
Stanley Guenter
David Freidel
III. Domestic Worlds and Public Worlds
81(54)
The Domestic Sphere of Women and the Public World of Men: The Strengths and Limitations of an Anthropological Dichotomy
86(9)
Louise Lamphere
``It's a Pleasure to Cook for Him'': Food, Mealtimes, and Gender in Some South Wales Households
95(10)
Anne Murcott
Fatherhood and the Mediating Role of Women
105(15)
Nicholas W. Townsend
Cities of Women
120(15)
Mary Weismantel
IV. Equality and Inequality: The Sexual Division of Labor and Gender Stratification
135(50)
Woman the Hunter: The Agta
141(10)
Agnes Estioko-Griffin
P. Bion Griffin
The Sexual Division of Labor on Vanatinai
151(4)
Maria Lepowsky
Pastoral Nomadism and Gender: Status and Prestige, Economic Contribution, and Division of Labor Among the Tuareg of Niger
155(14)
Susan Rasmussen
Women and Work in a Postrevolutionary Society: Urban Cooperatives and the Informal Economy in Nicaragua
169(16)
Florence E. Babb
V. The Cultural Construction of Gender and Personhood
185(56)
The Manhood Puzzle
190(13)
David D. Gilmore
Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea
203(4)
Gilbert H. Herdt
The Named and the Nameless: Gender and Person in Chinese Society
207(12)
Rubie S. Watson
Gender and the Stories Pittsburgh Police Officers Tell About Using Physical Force
219(11)
Bonnie McElhinny
The Making and Unmaking of Persons: Gender and Body in Northeast India
230(11)
Sarah Lamb
VI. Culture, Sexuality, and the Body
241(58)
Is There a Muslim Sexuality? Changing Constructions of Sexuality in Egyptian Bedouin Weddings
247(9)
Lila Abu-Lughod
From Pollution to Love Magic: The New Anthropology of Menstruation
256(12)
Alma Gottlieb
Women's Intimate Friendships and Other Affairs: An Ethnographic Overview
268(10)
Evelyn Blackwood
Hijras: An ``Alternative'' Sex/Gender in India
278(7)
Gayatri Reddy
Serena Nanda
Measuring Up to Barbie: Ideals of the Feminine Body in Popular Culture
285(14)
Jacqueline Urla
Alan C. Swedlund
VII. Gender, Property, and the State
299(50)
Thinking About Women and the Origin of the State
304(6)
Rayna Rapp
Dowry, Bride-Burning, and Female Power in India
310(10)
Linda Stone
Caroline James
Encountering the State: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women's Political Experience
320(12)
Josephine Caldwell Ryan
Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunch-Box as Ideological State Apparatus
332(17)
Anne Allison
VIII. Gender, Household, and Kinship
349(42)
Male Authority and Female Authority: A Study of the Matrilineal Nayars of Kerala, South India
354(9)
Shanti Menon
Domestic Networks: ``Those You Count On''
363(9)
Carol Stack
Matrifocality, Power, and Gender Relations in Jamaica
372(8)
Marsha Prior
The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship
380(11)
Micaela Di Leonardo
IX. Gender, Ritual, and Religion
391(52)
Spirit Possession and Gender Complementarity: Zar in Rural Northern Sudan
397(11)
Janice Boddy
``Tradition'' and Threat: Women's Obscenity in Giriama Funerary Rituals
408(13)
Janet Mcintosh
Mama Lola and the Ezilis: Themes of Mothering and Loving in Haitian Vodou
421(9)
Karen McCarthy Brown
Shamans, Bodies, and Sex: Misreading a Korean Ritual
430(13)
Laurel Kendall
X. Gender, Politics, and Reproduction
443(52)
Gender and Ritual: Giving Birth the American Way
449(12)
Robbie E. Davis-Floyd
The Politics of Reproduction in a Mexican Village
461(10)
Carole H. Browner
Surrogate Motherhood: Rethinking Biological Models, Kinship, and Family
471(10)
Helena Ragone
Female Genital Cutting: Culture and Controversy
481(14)
Ellen Gruenbaum
XI. Culture Contact, Development, and the Global Economy
495(70)
The Impact of Development on Women: The Interplay of Material Conditions and Gender Ideology
500(15)
Victoria S. Lockwood
Doing Their Homework: The Dilemma of Planning Women's Garden Programs in Bangladesh
515(7)
Margot Wilson-Moore
Factory as Home, and Family: Female Workers in the Moroccan Garment Industry
522(14)
M. Laetitia Cairoli
Consuming Desires, Contested Selves: Rural Women and Labor Migration in Thailand
536(14)
Mary Beth Mills
``Wild Pigs and Dog Men'': Rape and Domestic Violence as ``Women's Issues'' in Papua New Guinea
550(15)
Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi
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