Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective

PART 1: GENDERING BODIES 1. The theory that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is wrong 2. The past is a foreign country: archaeology of sex and gender 3. Animal models and gender 4. From pollution to love magic: the new anthropology of menstruation 5. Female genital cutting: moving forward on abolition? 6. Surgical transformations in the pursuit of gender 7. Revisiting the hijras: an alternate sex/gender in South Asia 8. Natural birth at the turn of the twenty-first century: implications for gender 9. Making room for daddy: fathers and breastfeeding in the United States 10. Masculinities, muscularities, and eating disorders among young men in South Korea PART 2: GENDER, KINSHIP, and FAMILY 11. Gender, horticulture, and the division of labor on Vanatinai 12. Factory as home and family: female workers in the Moroccan garment industry 13. Marriage, modernity, and migration: changing dynamics of intimacy in a Mexican transnational community 14. Beyond romantic partnerships: sese, gender egalitarianism, and kinship diversity in Mosuo society 15. What to do with unmarried daughters? Modern solutions to a traditional dilemma in a polyandrous Tibetan society 16. Little princesses and tiny barons: gender, microfinance, and parental priorities in urban Ecuador 17. Surrogate motherhood: rethinking biological models, kinship, and family PART 3: GENDERED SPACE and KNOWLEDGE 18. The fashioning of women 19. Gender, business, and space control: Yoruba market women and power 20. Taming internal weather, together: gendered knowledge flows during maternity under Khmer traditional and folk medicine systems 21. The domestic sphere of women and the public world of men: the strengths and limitations of an anthropological dichotomy 22. From "private" affairs to "public" scandals: the modern woman's challenge to husband's infidelities in Uganda 23. Possessing spirits and healing gods: female suffering and agency in North India 24. Empathetic Bhikkhuni: navigating emotion and gender in Thailand PART 4: GENDER and THE STATE 25. Lifeboat ethics: mother love and child death in Northeast Brazil 26. Political demography: the banning of abortion in Ceausescu's Romania 27. Women's autonomy, Islam, and the French State 28. Gender, sexuality, and asylum assessment 29. The 'unique blend': reframing womanhood through Turkish drama series 30. Ethnographic empathy and the social context of rights: 'rescuing' Maasai girls from early marriage 31 Between a rock and a hard place: the labyrinth of working and parenting in a poor community 32. Madres, madrinas, mam?s y m?s: trans Latina mothering in and around Chicago's sexual economies of labor 33. Advancing an intersectional politics of belonging: LGBTQ+ Latinx activism after the Pulse shooting PART 5: MASCULINITIES 34. The cultural nexus of Aka father-infant bonding 35. Downsizing masculinity: gender, family and fatherhood in post-industrial America 36. My encounter with machismo in Spain 37. "Now I gotta watch what I say": shifting constructions of masculinity in discourse 38. TikTok, truckers, and travel bans: digital disease surveillance and the scrutiny of masculinity in southern Africa