Research Catalog

Title

Gender in cross-cultural perspective / edited by Caroline B. Brettell and Carolyn F. Sargent.

Publication

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, [2009], ©2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brettell, Caroline.
• Sargent, Carolyn F., 1947-

Description

xvi, 578 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Sex role > Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

I. Biology, Gender, and Human Evolution -- Animal Models and Gender / Marlene Zuk -- The Role of Women in Human Evolution / Margaret Ehrenberg -- Gender and War: Are Women Tough Enough for Military Combat? / Lucinda J. Peach -- Lifeboat Ethics: Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- The Cultural Nexus of Aka Father-Infant Bonding / Barry S. Hewlett -- II. Gender and Prehistory -- The Archaeology of Gender Today: New Vistas, New Challenges / Margaret W. Conkey -- The Fashioning of Women / J. M Adovasio, Olga Soffer and Jake Page -- Warriors and Rulers: Royal Women of the Classic Maya / Stanley P. Guenter and David A. Freidel -- III. Domestic Worlds and Public Worlds -- The Domestic Sphere of Women and the Public World of Men: The Strengths and Limitations of an Anthropological Dichotomy / Louise Lamphere -- "It's a Pleasure to Cook for Him": Food, Mealtimes, and Gender in Some South Wales Households / Anne Murcott -- Fatherhood and the Mediating Role of Women / Nicholas W. Townsend -- Cities of Women / Mary Weismantel -- IV. Equality and Inequality: The Sexual Division of Labor and Gender Stratification -- Woman the Hunter: The Agta / Agnes Estioko-Griffin and P. Bion Griffin -- Gender, Horticulture, and the Division of Labor on Vanatinai / Maria Lepowsky -- Do Tents and Herds Still Matter? Pastoral Nomadism and Gender among the Tuareg in Niger and Mali / Susan Rasmussen -- Women and Work in a Postrevolutionary Society: Urban Cooperatives and the Informal Economy in Nicaragua / Florence E. Babb -- V. The Cultural Construction of Gender and Personhood -- My Encounter with Machismo in Spain / David D. Gilmore -- Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea / Gilbert H. Herdt -- The Named and the Nameless: Gender and Person in Chinese Society / Rubie S. Watson -- Gender and the Stories Pittsburgh Police Officers Tell about Using Physical Force / Bonnie McElhinny -- The Making and Unmaking of Persons: Gender and Body in Northeast India / Sarah Lamb -- VI. Culture, Sexuality, and the Body -- Is There a Muslim Sexuality? Changing Constructions of Sexuality in Egyptian Bedouin Weddings / Lila Abu-Lughod -- From Pollution to Love Magic: The New Anthropology of Menstruation / Alma Gottlieb -- Hijras: An "Alternative" Sex/Gender in India / Gayatri Reddy and Serena Nanda -- Measuring Up to Barbie: Ideals of the Feminine Body in Popular Culture / Jacqueline Urla and Alan C. Swedlund -- VII. Gender, Property, and the State -- Thinking about Women and the Origin of the State / Rayna Rapp -- Dowry, Bride-Burning, and Female Power in India / Linda Stone and Caroline James -- Encountering the State: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women's Political Experience / Josephine Caldwell Ryan -- Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunch-Box as Ideological State Apparatus / Anne Allison -- VIII. Gender, Household, and Kinship -- Beyond the "Pattern of Heaven": Gender, Kinship and the Family in China / Monica Cable -- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Labyrinth of Working and Parenting in a Poor Community / Sharon Hicks-Bartlett -- Matrifocality, Power, and Gender Relations in Jamaica / Marsha Prior -- The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship / Micaela di Leonardo -- IX. Gender, Ritual, and Religion -- Spirit Possession and Gender Complementarity: Zar in Rural Northern Sudan / Janice Boddy -- "Tradition" and Threat: Women's Obscenity in Giriama Funerary Rituals / Janet McIntosh -- Shamans, Bodies, and Sex: Misreading a Korean Ritual / Laurel Kendall -- Women, Religion, and Modernization: Tradition and Transformation among Elderly Jews in Israel / Susan Starr Sered -- X. Gender, Politics, and Reproduction -- Gender and Ritual: Giving Birth the American Way / Robbie E. Davis-Floyd -- Political Demography: The Banning of Abortion in Ceausescu's Romania / Gail Kligman -- Surrogate Motherhood: Rethinking Biological Models, Kinship, and Family / Helena Ragone -- Female Genital Cutting: Culture and Controversy / Ellen Gruenbaum -- XI. Culture Contact, Development, and the Global Economy -- The Impact of Development on Women: The Interplay of Material Conditions and Gender Ideology / Victoria S. Lockwood -- Doing Their Homework: The Dilemma of Planning Women's Garden Programs in Bangladesh / Margot Wilson-Moore -- Factory as Home and Family: Female Workers in the Moroccan Garment Industry / M. Laetitia Cairoli -- Sexuality and Discipline among Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong / Nicole Constable -- "Wild Pigs and Dog Men": Rape and Domestic Violence as "Women's Issues" in Papua New Guinea / Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi.

ISBN

• 9780136061328
• 013606132X

LCCN

• 2008014543
• 99821361336

OCLC

• 219569416
• ocn219569416
• SCSB-5425250

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries