Gender in cross-cultural perspective
Gender in cross-cultural perspective
edited by Caroline B. Brettell and Carolyn F. Sargent.
- 5th ed.
- New Delhi PHI c2009.
- xvi, 578 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Biology, Gender, and Human Evolution -- Animal Models and Gender / The Role of Women in Human Evolution / Gender and War: Are Women Tough Enough for Military Combat? / Lifeboat Ethics: Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil / The Cultural Nexus of Aka Father-Infant Bonding / Gender and Prehistory -- The Archaeology of Gender Today: New Vistas, New Challenges / The Fashioning of Women / Warriors and Rulers: Royal Women of the Classic Maya / 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 / Cities of Women / Equality and Inequality: The Sexual Division of Labor and Gender Stratification -- Woman the Hunter: The Agta / Gender, Horticulture, and the Division of Labor on Vanatinai / Do Tents and Herds Still Matter? Pastoral Nomadism and Gender among the Tuareg in Niger and Mali / Women and Work in a Postrevolutionary Society: Urban Cooperatives and the Informal Economy in Nicaragua / The Cultural Construction of Gender and Personhood -- My Encounter with Machismo in Spain / Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea / The Named and the Nameless: Gender and Person in Chinese Society / Gender and the Stories Pittsburgh Police Officers Tell about Using Physical Force / The Making and Unmaking of Persons: Gender and Body in Northeast India / Culture, Sexuality, and the Body -- Is There a Muslim Sexuality? Changing Constructions of Sexuality in Egyptian Bedouin Weddings / From Pollution to Love Magic: The New Anthropology of Menstruation / Hijras: An "Alternative" Sex/Gender in India / Measuring Up to Barbie: Ideals of the Feminine Body in Popular Culture / 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 -- Beyond the "Pattern of Heaven": Gender, Kinship and the Family in China / Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Labyrinth of Working and Parenting in a Poor Community / 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 Rural Northern Sudan / "Tradition" and Threat: Women's Obscenity in Giriama Funerary Rituals / Shamans, Bodies, and Sex: Misreading a Korean Ritual / Women, Religion, and Modernization: Tradition and Transformation among Elderly Jews in Israel / Gender, Politics, and Reproduction -- Gender and Ritual: Giving Birth the American Way / Political Demography: The Banning of Abortion in Ceausescu's Romania / Surrogate Motherhood: Rethinking Biological Models, Kinship, and Family / Female Genital Cutting: Culture and Controversy / Culture Contact, Development, and the Global Economy -- The Impact of Development on Women: The Interplay of Material Conditions and Gender Ideology / 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 / Sexuality and Discipline among Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong / "Wild Pigs and Dog Men": Rape and Domestic Violence as "Women's Issues" in Papua New Guinea / Marlene Zuk -- Margaret Ehrenberg -- Lucinda J. Peach -- Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Barry S. Hewlett -- Margaret W. Conkey -- J. M Adovasio, Olga Soffer and Jake Page -- Stanley P. Guenter and David A. Freidel -- Louise Lamphere -- Anne Murcott -- Nicholas W. Townsend -- Mary Weismantel -- Agnes Estioko-Griffin and P. Bion Griffin -- Maria Lepowsky -- Susan Rasmussen -- Florence E. Babb -- David D. Gilmore -- Gilbert H. Herdt -- Rubie S. Watson -- Bonnie McElhinny -- Sarah Lamb -- Lila Abu-Lughod -- Alma Gottlieb -- Gayatri Reddy and Serena Nanda -- Jacqueline Urla and Alan C. Swedlund -- Rayna Rapp -- Linda Stone and Caroline James -- Josephine Caldwell Ryan -- Anne Allison -- Monica Cable -- Sharon Hicks-Bartlett -- Marsha Prior -- Micaela di Leonardo -- Janice Boddy -- Janet McIntosh -- Laurel Kendall -- Susan Starr Sered -- Robbie E. Davis-Floyd -- Gail Kligman -- Helena Ragone -- Ellen Gruenbaum -- Victoria S. Lockwood -- Margot Wilson-Moore -- M. Laetitia Cairoli -- Nicole Constable -- Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi. I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI.
9788120343634 013606132X
Sex role--Cross-cultural studies.
305.3 / GEN-G
Includes bibliographical references.
Biology, Gender, and Human Evolution -- Animal Models and Gender / The Role of Women in Human Evolution / Gender and War: Are Women Tough Enough for Military Combat? / Lifeboat Ethics: Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil / The Cultural Nexus of Aka Father-Infant Bonding / Gender and Prehistory -- The Archaeology of Gender Today: New Vistas, New Challenges / The Fashioning of Women / Warriors and Rulers: Royal Women of the Classic Maya / 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 / Cities of Women / Equality and Inequality: The Sexual Division of Labor and Gender Stratification -- Woman the Hunter: The Agta / Gender, Horticulture, and the Division of Labor on Vanatinai / Do Tents and Herds Still Matter? Pastoral Nomadism and Gender among the Tuareg in Niger and Mali / Women and Work in a Postrevolutionary Society: Urban Cooperatives and the Informal Economy in Nicaragua / The Cultural Construction of Gender and Personhood -- My Encounter with Machismo in Spain / Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea / The Named and the Nameless: Gender and Person in Chinese Society / Gender and the Stories Pittsburgh Police Officers Tell about Using Physical Force / The Making and Unmaking of Persons: Gender and Body in Northeast India / Culture, Sexuality, and the Body -- Is There a Muslim Sexuality? Changing Constructions of Sexuality in Egyptian Bedouin Weddings / From Pollution to Love Magic: The New Anthropology of Menstruation / Hijras: An "Alternative" Sex/Gender in India / Measuring Up to Barbie: Ideals of the Feminine Body in Popular Culture / 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 -- Beyond the "Pattern of Heaven": Gender, Kinship and the Family in China / Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Labyrinth of Working and Parenting in a Poor Community / 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 Rural Northern Sudan / "Tradition" and Threat: Women's Obscenity in Giriama Funerary Rituals / Shamans, Bodies, and Sex: Misreading a Korean Ritual / Women, Religion, and Modernization: Tradition and Transformation among Elderly Jews in Israel / Gender, Politics, and Reproduction -- Gender and Ritual: Giving Birth the American Way / Political Demography: The Banning of Abortion in Ceausescu's Romania / Surrogate Motherhood: Rethinking Biological Models, Kinship, and Family / Female Genital Cutting: Culture and Controversy / Culture Contact, Development, and the Global Economy -- The Impact of Development on Women: The Interplay of Material Conditions and Gender Ideology / 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 / Sexuality and Discipline among Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong / "Wild Pigs and Dog Men": Rape and Domestic Violence as "Women's Issues" in Papua New Guinea / Marlene Zuk -- Margaret Ehrenberg -- Lucinda J. Peach -- Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Barry S. Hewlett -- Margaret W. Conkey -- J. M Adovasio, Olga Soffer and Jake Page -- Stanley P. Guenter and David A. Freidel -- Louise Lamphere -- Anne Murcott -- Nicholas W. Townsend -- Mary Weismantel -- Agnes Estioko-Griffin and P. Bion Griffin -- Maria Lepowsky -- Susan Rasmussen -- Florence E. Babb -- David D. Gilmore -- Gilbert H. Herdt -- Rubie S. Watson -- Bonnie McElhinny -- Sarah Lamb -- Lila Abu-Lughod -- Alma Gottlieb -- Gayatri Reddy and Serena Nanda -- Jacqueline Urla and Alan C. Swedlund -- Rayna Rapp -- Linda Stone and Caroline James -- Josephine Caldwell Ryan -- Anne Allison -- Monica Cable -- Sharon Hicks-Bartlett -- Marsha Prior -- Micaela di Leonardo -- Janice Boddy -- Janet McIntosh -- Laurel Kendall -- Susan Starr Sered -- Robbie E. Davis-Floyd -- Gail Kligman -- Helena Ragone -- Ellen Gruenbaum -- Victoria S. Lockwood -- Margot Wilson-Moore -- M. Laetitia Cairoli -- Nicole Constable -- Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi. I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI.
9788120343634 013606132X
Sex role--Cross-cultural studies.
305.3 / GEN-G