Gendered Modernities

Ethnographic Perspectives
2002. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-312-24013-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 271 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 206 mm, Gewicht: 331 g

Based on long-term ethnographic research, the book chapters explore the intersection of 'gender' and 'modernity' as they are mediated in the lives and subjectivities of diverse individuals and groups. How are the messages of modernity/tradition gendered? How are the material practices and cultural meanings of modernity shaped by local ideas of gender and 'progress'? Together these chapters demonstrate that the ideas of progress, rationality, order, and development encompassed by 'modernity' are profoundly gendered, whether conveyed by mass media images of consumption, agendas of nation-building, or legal discourse. Furthermore, the mutual inflections of gender and modernity are at once pervasively 'global,' occurring in different locales and ways; and deeply 'local,' shaping and shaped by the structures and experiences of culture, class, ethnicity, and nation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hodgson, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; D.L.Hodgson PART I: CONSUMPTION AND DESIRE Auditioning for the Chorus Line: Gender, Youth and the Consumption of Modernity in Thailand; M.B.Mills Acadas and Fertilizer Girls: Young Nigerian Women and the Romance of Middle Class Modernity; M.L.Bastian PART II: ALTERNATIVE MODERNITIES The Strength in the Song: Muslim Personhood, Audible Capital, and Women's Performance of the Haj; B.M.Cooper 'Once Intrepid Warriors: Modernity and the Production of Maasai Masculinities; D.L.Hodgson PART III: 'MODERN' FAMILIES Mamitis and the Traumas of Development in a Colonia Popular of Mexico City; M.C.Gutmann Growing Girls/Closing Circles: Limits on the Spaces of Knowing in Rural Sudan and US Cities; C.Katz PART IV: ENGAGING CAPITAL AND THE STATE Mining Men: Chile Exploratory Company and the Politics of Copper, Culture and Gender, 1921-1971; J.Finn Goudui and the State: Constructing Entrepreneurial Masculinity in Two Cosmopolitan Areas of Contemporary China; E.Zhang

Über Autor(innen)

DOROTHY L. HODGSON teaches anthropology at Rutgers University, where she is an active member of the Center for African Studies and Women's Studies Program. She is the author of editor of and co-editor of ' Her articles have appeared in and . She is currently completing a book that examines female experiences and expressions of spirituality and power in the context of Catholic evangelization efforts.