Gender, agency, and change : anthropological perspectives / edited by Victoria Ana Goddard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goddard, Victoria A.

European Association of Social Anthropologists. Conference 1996 : Barcelona, Spain)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--Cross-cultural studies.

Social change.

Sex role--Cross-cultural studies.

Sex role.

Globalization--Cross-cultural studies.

Globalization.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Summary:

People create new opportunities and conditions in response to change, these responses are influenced by both gender and age. In "Gender, Agency and Change" the contributors illustrate the complexities involved in the constitution and performance of agency. Agency may be reflected in strategies of accommodation and adaptation that can nevertheless produce new institutional arrangements, or they may be directed towards the outright rejection of these processes. The cases examined in this volume explore the ways in which different subjects engage in the reformation of spaces, roles and identities, redefining the boundaries between and the content of the 'public' and the 'private'. The examples also provide an account of how gendered discourses are deployed to convey new meanings, a new sense of place and time or to confirm or challenge ideas of 'tradition' and 'modernity'.

Notes:

"The present volume grew out of the Fourth Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists held in Barcelona in July 1996 ..."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415228271

041522828X

OCLC:

43615408