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Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Editat de Caroline B. Brettell, Carolyn F. Sargent
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mai 2017
This carefully crafted volume introduces anthropological approaches to and perspectives on gender. It combines theoretically and ethnographically based essays in order to examine gender roles and ideology around the world. Divided thematically into 11 sections, the editors open each section with a succinct introduction to the principal issues. The articles themselves, both classic and contemporary, are drawn from all fields of anthropology and cover a wide variety of cultures. The seventh edition contains 11 new entries that reflect more recent developments in the discipline, including topics such as gender identity, transnationalism and female genital cutting. Additional features to support teaching and learning that are new to this edition include a film list and discussion questions at the end of each entry. This is an essential resource for students encountering the anthropology of gender for the first time.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138216648
ISBN-10: 113821664X
Pagini: 742
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 44 mm
Greutate: 1.24 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Undergraduate

Cuprins

Preface  1. Animal Models and Gender  2. Lifeboat Ethics: Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil  3. The Cultural Nexus of Aka Father–Infant Bonding  4. Difference Matters: Embodiment and Discourse on Difference in an Urban Public High School  5. The Past Is a Foreign Country: Archaeology of Sex and Gender  6. The Fashioning of Women  7. Inca Gender Relations, from Household to Empire  8. The Domestic Sphere of Women and the Public World of Men: The Strengths and Limitations of an Anthropological Dichotomy  9. From “Private” Affairs to “Public” Scandals: The Modern Woman’s Challenge to Husband’s Infidelities in Uganda  10. Downsizing Masculinity: Gender, Family and Fatherhood in Post-Industrial America  11. Marriage, Modernity, and Migration: Changing Dynamics of Intimacy in a Mexican Transnational Community  12. Woman the Hunter: The Agta  13. Gender, Horticulture, and the Division of Labor on Vanatinai  14. Ethnographic Empathy and the Social Context of Rights: “Rescuing” Maasai Girls from Early Marriage  15. Gender, Business, and Space Control: Yoruba Market Women and Power  16. My Encounter with Machismo in Spain  17. Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea  18. Surgical Transformations in the Pursuit of Gender  19. “Now I Gotta Watch What I Say”: Shifting Constructions of Masculinity in Discourse  20. One of the Guys: Military Women Paradoxical Individuality and the Transformation of the Argentine Army  21. Is There a Muslim Sexuality? Changing Constructions of Sexuality in Egyptian Bedouin Weddings  22. From Pollution to Love Magic: The New Anthropology of Menstruation  23. Hijras: An “Alternative” Sex/Gender in India  24. The Gender of Brazilian Transgender Prostitutes  25. Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunch-Box as Ideological State Apparatus  26. “Single Women Are Bitter”: The Gendered Production of Affective States in Chile  27. Women’s Autonomy, Islam, and the French State  28. The “Unique Blend”: Reframing Womanhood through Turkish Drama Series  29. Female Genital Cutting: Moving Forward on Abolition?  30. What to do with Unmarried Daughters? Modern Solutions to a Traditional Dilemma in a Polyandrous Tibetan Society  31. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Labyrinth of Working and Parenting in a Poor Community  32. Rethinking Caribbean Families: Extending the Links  33. Resignation and Refusal: The Moral Calculus of Lesbian and Gay Parenthood in the US  34. Possessing Spirits and Healing Gods: Resolving Women’s Suffering in a Hindu Temple  35. “Tradition” and Threat: Women’s Obscenity in Giriama Funerary Rituals  36. Shamans, Bodies, and Sex: Misreading a Korean Ritual  37. How to Change a Man: Spiritual Transformation and Shifts in Gender Ideology in Evangelical El Salvador  38. Natural Birth at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Implications for Gender  39. Political Demography: The Banning of Abortion in Ceausescu’s Romania  40. Surrogate Motherhood: Rethinking Biological Models, Kinship, and Family  41. Making Room for Daddy: Fathers and Breastfeeding in the United States  42. Little Princesses and Tiny Barons: Gender, Microfinance, and Parental Priorities in Urban Ecuador  43. Factory as Home and Family: Female Workers in the Moroccan Garment Industry  44. Sexuality and Discipline among Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong  45. Genders and Spenders: Masculinity and Money I Ecuadorian Transmigration  46. Sex Tourism, Globalization, and Transnational Imaginings  Film List  Index

Notă biografică

Caroline B. Brettell is The Ruth Collins Altshuler Endowed Professor and Director of the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute at Southern Methodist University, USA.
Carolyn F. Sargent is Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.


Descriere

This carefully crafted volume introduces anthropological approaches to and perspectives on gender. It combines theoretically and ethnographically-based essays in order to examine gender roles and ideology around the world. The articles, both classic and contemporary, are drawn from all fields of anthropology and cover a wide variety of cultures. The seventh edition contains 12 new entries that reflect more recent developments in the discipline, including topics such as transnationalism and transgender. With additional features to support teaching and learning, including discussion questions, this is an essential resource for students encountering anthropology of gender for the first time.