Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Herausgeber: Brettell, Caroline B; Sargent, Carolyn F
Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Herausgeber: Brettell, Caroline B; Sargent, Carolyn F
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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,…mehr
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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.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- 7th edition
- Seitenzahl: 720
- Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2017
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 244mm x 577mm x 43mm
- Gewicht: 1256g
- ISBN-13: 9781138216648
- ISBN-10: 113821664X
- Artikelnr.: 48534976
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- 7th edition
- Seitenzahl: 720
- Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2017
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 244mm x 577mm x 43mm
- Gewicht: 1256g
- ISBN-13: 9781138216648
- ISBN-10: 113821664X
- Artikelnr.: 48534976
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.
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
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
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
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