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6th Edition
Published on 27. July 2012
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504 pages
978-0-205-89620-2 (ISBN)
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Introduces students to the most significant topics in anthropology of gender.
Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective is a one-volume reader built on classic contributions to gender and anthropology, incorporating recent literature on gender roles and ideology around the world.
It combines theoretically and ethnographically-based essays and is appropriate for undergraduate and beginning graduate students.
Learning Goals
Upon completing this book readers will be able to:
Name the most significant topics in anthropology of gender
Discuss the questions raised by the authors in each section
Understand issues of gender in industrial society and developing societies
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Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective is a one-volume reader built on classic contributions to gender and anthropology, incorporating recent literature on gender roles and ideology around the world.
It combines theoretically and ethnographically-based essays and is appropriate for undergraduate and beginning graduate students.
Learning Goals
Upon completing this book readers will be able to:
Name the most significant topics in anthropology of gender
Discuss the questions raised by the authors in each section
Understand issues of gender in industrial society and developing societies
Note: MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab, please visit: www.mysearchlab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MySearchlab (at no additional cost).
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6th edition
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English
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United States
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Pearson Education (US)
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Professional and scholarly
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771 gr
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Caroline Brettell received her B.A. degree from Yale University and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Brown University. She joined the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University in 1988, and in 2008 was named University Distinguished Professor. From 1989 to 1994, she served as Director of Women's Studies, and from 1994 to 2004 she served as Chair of the Department of Anthropology. From 2006 to 2008, she served as Interim Dean of Dedman College, the Humanities and Sciences College at Southern Methodist University. Her research interests are in the areas of immigration, gender roles, European ethnography, and anthropology and history. She is the author of Men Who Migrate, Women Who Wait: Population and History in a Portuguese Parish (1986), We Have Already Cried Many Tears: The Stories of Three Portuguese Migrant Women (1982, 1995), Writing against the Wind: A Mother's Life History (1999), and Anthropology and Migration: Essays on Transnationalism, Ethnicity and Identity (2003); coauthor with Richard Brettell of Painters and Peasants in the 19th Century (1983); editor of When They Read What We Write: The Politics of Ethnography (1993) and Constructing Borders/Crossing Boundaries: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration (2007); coeditor of International Migration: The Female Experience (1986), Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Prentice Hall 1993, 1997, 2001, 2005), Gender and Health: An International Perspective (1996), Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines (2000, 2007), Citizenship, Political Engagement, and Belonging: Immigrants in Europe and the U.S (2008), and America's Twenty-First Century Immigrant Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburbia (2008). Her most recent book, co-authored with Deborah Reed-Danahay is titled Civic Engagements: The Citizenship Practices of Indian and Vietnamese Immigrants (2012). She is also the author of numerous book chapters, and articles. Professor Brettell has served as a member of National Institutes of Health (NIH) Study Section-SNEM 3 and several selection panels for the Social Science Research Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). She has served as President of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe and of the Social Science History Association. She has conducted field research in France, Portugal, and Canada and is currently engaged in a long-term study of new immigrants into the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area with funding from the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation.
Carolyn Sargent received her B.A. degree from Michigan State University, her M.A. degree from the University of Manchester, and her Ph.D. from Michigan State University. She is Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1979 to 2008, she served as Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University, where she was Director of Women's Studies from 1994 through 2007. She is currently a research fellow at IRIS, an interdisciplinary social science laboratory associated with the University of Paris 13, CNRS, EHESS, and INSERM. Her research interests are in the areas of global health, gender and reproduction, and bioethics. Sargent is the author of The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice: Obstetrical Decisions among the Bariba of Benin (1982), and Maternity, Medicine and Power: Reproductive Decisions in Urban Benin (1989); and coeditor of Reproduction, Globalization and the State (Duke University Press 2011); Medical Anthropology: A Handbook of Theory and Method, Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Prentice Hall 1993, 1997, 2001, 2005), Gender and Health: An International Perspective (1996), Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge (1997), and Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood (1998). In addition to several book chapters, she has also authored numerous articles, many of them published in Medical Anthropological Quarterly and Social Science and Medicine. She has conducted fieldwork in West Africa and the Caribbean and is currently engaged in a long-term study of West African immigrants in France funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation and the National Science Foundation. She has served on a Senior Advisory Panel of the National Science Foundation and on the Executive Board for the Society for Medical Anthropology. In 2007 she assumed the role of President of the SMA. She has also served on the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche as external reviewer for social science research.
Carolyn Sargent received her B.A. degree from Michigan State University, her M.A. degree from the University of Manchester, and her Ph.D. from Michigan State University. She is Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1979 to 2008, she served as Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University, where she was Director of Women's Studies from 1994 through 2007. She is currently a research fellow at IRIS, an interdisciplinary social science laboratory associated with the University of Paris 13, CNRS, EHESS, and INSERM. Her research interests are in the areas of global health, gender and reproduction, and bioethics. Sargent is the author of The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice: Obstetrical Decisions among the Bariba of Benin (1982), and Maternity, Medicine and Power: Reproductive Decisions in Urban Benin (1989); and coeditor of Reproduction, Globalization and the State (Duke University Press 2011); Medical Anthropology: A Handbook of Theory and Method, Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Prentice Hall 1993, 1997, 2001, 2005), Gender and Health: An International Perspective (1996), Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge (1997), and Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood (1998). In addition to several book chapters, she has also authored numerous articles, many of them published in Medical Anthropological Quarterly and Social Science and Medicine. She has conducted fieldwork in West Africa and the Caribbean and is currently engaged in a long-term study of West African immigrants in France funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation and the National Science Foundation. She has served on a Senior Advisory Panel of the National Science Foundation and on the Executive Board for the Society for Medical Anthropology. In 2007 she assumed the role of President of the SMA. She has also served on the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche as external reviewer for social science research.
Content
Found in this Section:
1. Brief Table of Contents
2. Full Table of Contents
1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
About the Authors
I. Biology, Gender, and Human Evolution
II. Gender and Prehistory
III. Domestic Worlds and Public Worlds
IV. Equality and Inequality: The Sexual Division of Labor and Gender
V. The Cultural Construction of Gender and Personhood
VI. Culture, Sexuality, and the Body
VII. Gender, Property, and the State
VIII. Gender, Household, and Kinship
IX. Gender, Ritual, and Religion
X. Gender, Politics, and Reproduction
XI. Gender and the Global Economy
2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
About the Authors
I. Biology, Gender, and Human Evolution
Animal Models and Gender
Marlene Zuk
Delusions of Gender: What Does it All Mean Anyway? and Brain Scams
Cordelia Fine
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 Past is a Foreign Country: Archaeology of Sex and Gender
Rosemary A. Joyce
The Fashioning of Women
J. M Adovasio, Olga Soffer, and Jake Page
Inca Gender Relations: From Household to Empire
R. Alan Covey
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
From "Private" Affairs to "Public" Scandals: The Modern Woman's Challenge to Husband's Infidelities in Uganda
Shanti Parikh
Fatherhood and the Mediating Role of Women
Nicholas W. Townsend
Marriage, Modernity and Migration: Changing Dynamics of Intimacy in a Mexican Transnational Community
Jennifer S. Hirsch
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
Gender, Business, and Space Control: Yoruba Market Women and Power
Toyin Falola
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
Surgical Transformation in the Pursuit of Gender
Lauren E. Gulbas
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
Constructing the Lesbian Body: The Worker Community of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
Alexis Matza
VII. Gender, Property, and the State
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
"Single Women are Bitter": The Gendered Production of Affective States in Chile
Nia C. Parson
Women's Autonomy, Islam, and the French State
John R. Bowen
VIII. Gender, Household, and Kinship
What to do with Unmarried Daughters? Modern Solutions to a Traditional Dilemma in a Polyandrous Tibetan Society
Geoff Childs, Melvyn G. Goldstein, and Puchung Wangdui
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Labyrinth of Working and Parenting in a Poor Community
Sharon Hicks-Bartlett
Rethinking Caribbean Families: Extending the Links
Mary Chamberlain
Resignation and Refusal: The Moral Calculus of Lesbian and Gay Parenthood in the US
Ellen Lewin
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
How to Change a Man: Spiritual Transformation and Shifts in Gender Ideology in Evangelical El Salvador
Jose Leonardo Santos
X. Gender, Politics, and Reproduction
Natural Birth at the Turn of the 21st Century: Implications for Gender
Margaret MacDonald
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. Gender and the Global Economy
Enter Microcredit: A New Culture of Women's Empowerment in Rajasthan
Megan Moodie
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
Migration, Money and Masculinity in Kerala
Caroline Osella and Filippo Osella
Sex Tourism, Globalization, and Transnational Imaginings
Denise Brennan
1. Brief Table of Contents
2. Full Table of Contents
1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
About the Authors
I. Biology, Gender, and Human Evolution
II. Gender and Prehistory
III. Domestic Worlds and Public Worlds
IV. Equality and Inequality: The Sexual Division of Labor and Gender
V. The Cultural Construction of Gender and Personhood
VI. Culture, Sexuality, and the Body
VII. Gender, Property, and the State
VIII. Gender, Household, and Kinship
IX. Gender, Ritual, and Religion
X. Gender, Politics, and Reproduction
XI. Gender and the Global Economy
2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
About the Authors
I. Biology, Gender, and Human Evolution
Animal Models and Gender
Marlene Zuk
Delusions of Gender: What Does it All Mean Anyway? and Brain Scams
Cordelia Fine
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 Past is a Foreign Country: Archaeology of Sex and Gender
Rosemary A. Joyce
The Fashioning of Women
J. M Adovasio, Olga Soffer, and Jake Page
Inca Gender Relations: From Household to Empire
R. Alan Covey
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
From "Private" Affairs to "Public" Scandals: The Modern Woman's Challenge to Husband's Infidelities in Uganda
Shanti Parikh
Fatherhood and the Mediating Role of Women
Nicholas W. Townsend
Marriage, Modernity and Migration: Changing Dynamics of Intimacy in a Mexican Transnational Community
Jennifer S. Hirsch
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
Gender, Business, and Space Control: Yoruba Market Women and Power
Toyin Falola
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
Surgical Transformation in the Pursuit of Gender
Lauren E. Gulbas
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
Constructing the Lesbian Body: The Worker Community of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
Alexis Matza
VII. Gender, Property, and the State
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
"Single Women are Bitter": The Gendered Production of Affective States in Chile
Nia C. Parson
Women's Autonomy, Islam, and the French State
John R. Bowen
VIII. Gender, Household, and Kinship
What to do with Unmarried Daughters? Modern Solutions to a Traditional Dilemma in a Polyandrous Tibetan Society
Geoff Childs, Melvyn G. Goldstein, and Puchung Wangdui
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Labyrinth of Working and Parenting in a Poor Community
Sharon Hicks-Bartlett
Rethinking Caribbean Families: Extending the Links
Mary Chamberlain
Resignation and Refusal: The Moral Calculus of Lesbian and Gay Parenthood in the US
Ellen Lewin
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
How to Change a Man: Spiritual Transformation and Shifts in Gender Ideology in Evangelical El Salvador
Jose Leonardo Santos
X. Gender, Politics, and Reproduction
Natural Birth at the Turn of the 21st Century: Implications for Gender
Margaret MacDonald
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. Gender and the Global Economy
Enter Microcredit: A New Culture of Women's Empowerment in Rajasthan
Megan Moodie
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
Migration, Money and Masculinity in Kerala
Caroline Osella and Filippo Osella
Sex Tourism, Globalization, and Transnational Imaginings
Denise Brennan