Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective

8. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-50413-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 606 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1210 g

This fully updated new edition of Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective carefully introduces and responds to changes in anthropological approaches to and perspectives on gender. With two new editors and new authors from the Global South and underrepresented communities, it combines theoretically and ethnographically based chapters to examine gender roles and ideology around the world.

The books is divided thematically into five parts, with the editors opening each section with a succinct introduction to the principal issues. The book retains some of the classic chapters while offering new contributions and extended discussions throughout on methodology. It also has entirely new contributions that reflect more recent developments in the discipline, including more emphasis on LGBTQ+ communities, COVID, and migration. This new edition also features additional support for teaching and learning, including a film list and discussion questions, that are now offered as supplemental online materials.

The eighth edition of Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective continues to be an essential resource for undergraduate and graduate students encountering the anthropology of gender for the first time.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strong, Adrienne E.

Powis, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 anthr

Über Autor(innen)

Adrienne E. Strong is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Affiliate of the Center for African Studies and Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Florida, USA.

Richard Powis is Assistant Professor of Maternal and Child Health in the College of Public Health and has Faculty Affiliation in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of South Florida, USA.