ROBERTSON JENNIFER

Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities

An Anthropological Reader
Herausgeber: Robertson, Jennifer

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader demonstrates the centrality of the complicated relationship of sex, gender, and sexuality to theories of human behaviors and practices. Although heterosexuality has been interrogated and demystified, it retains normative dominance. By drawing on the multiple fresh and illuminating perspectives of anthropology, this landmark collection moves beyond other lesbian and gay studies readers by presenting a broader view of the significance of studying same-sex cultures and sexualities by presenting the lives of a range of individuals across cultural and temporal domains. Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities offers readings from all four subfields of anthropology: cultural, biological, linguistic, and archaeological (along with historical and applied anthropology), and includes discussion of biotechnology and bioethics, health and illness, language, ethnicity, identity, politics, post/colonialism, kinship, development, and policymaking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780631233008
• ISBN-10: 0631233008
• Artikelnr.: 22438773

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Robertson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. She has published many articles and book chapters (in several languages) on a wide spectrum of subjects and is the author of Native and Newcomer: Making and Unmaking a Japanese City (1991) and Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan (2001 [1998]; Japanese translation 2000). The author's primary area specialty is Japan however she has also worked in Sri Lanka and is presently working in Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Sexualizing anthropology's fields (Jennifer Robertson).
Part 1: Anthropology's Sexual Fields.
1. "Anthropology rediscovers sexuality: A theoretical comment." (Carole
Vance).
2. "Biological determinism and homosexuality." (Bonnie Spanier).
3. "Feminisms, queer theories, and the archaeological study of past
sexualities." (Barbara Voss).
4. "No." (Don Kulick).
5. "Resources for lesbian ethnographic research in the lavender archives."
(Alisa Klinger).
Part 2: Problems and Propositions.
6. "Erotic anthropology: 'ritualized homosexuality' in Melanesia and
beyond." (Deborah Elliston).
7. "Gender, genetics, and generation: reformulating biology in lesbian
kinship." (Corinne Hayden).
8. "Transsexualism: reflections on the persistence of gender and the
mutability of sex." (Judith Shapiro).
9. "Problems encountered in writing the history of sexuality: Sources,
theory and interpretation." (Estelle B. Freedman and John D'Emilio).
Part 3: Ethics, Erotics and Exercises .
10. "Choosing the sexual orientation of children." (Edward Stein).
11. "Yoshiya Nobuko: Out and outspoken in practice and prose." (Jennifer
Robertson).
12. "Outing as performance/outing as resistance: a queer reading of
Austrian (homo)sexualities." (Matti Bunzl).
13. "Tombois in West Sumatra: constructing masculinity and erotic desire."
(Evelyn Blackwood).
14. "Freeing South Africa: the 'modernization' of male-male sexuality in
Soweto." (Donald Donham).
15. "Gay organizations, NGOs, and the globalization of sexual identity: the
case of Bolivia." (Timothy Wright).

Rezensionen

"It is volumes like this one that allow us to see all sortsof new connections and possibilities. The vibrant thematiccoherence of these articles is intellectually exciting, and one cangenuinely say that, in this volume, the whole is far greater thanthe sum of its parts. It is a particular strength that the articlescome from across the anthropological subfields."

Margaret Conkey, University of California, Berkeley

"An exquisite collection! The ethnographic reach andtheoretical sophistication of this reader ensure that it isdestined to become a classic reference and an indispensable toolfor teaching. In addition to its contributions to the study ofsame-sex cultures, it boldly articulates anthropology'sspecial claims and unique role in the study of humansexualities."

Gayle Rubin, University of Michigan

"An exceptionally coherent collection, with uniformlystrong contributions. Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities is alucid demonstration of the ways that research on same-sexsexualities has intervened in and redefined core problems anddebates in anthropology and history."

Mary Hancock, University of California, Santa Barbara