Gender in cross-cultural perspective / edited by Caroline B. Brettell and Carolyn F. Sargent.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brettell, Caroline.

Sargent, Carolyn F., 1947-

Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Cross-cultural studies.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

xvi, 578 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Fifth edition.

Place of Publication:

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, [2009]

Contents:

I Biology, Gender, and Human Evolution 1

Animal Models and Gender / Marlene Zuk 7

The Role of Women in Human Evolution / Margaret Ehrenberg 16

Gender and War: Are Women Tough Enough for Military Combat? / Lucinda J. Peach 21

Lifeboat Ethics: Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes 33

The Cultural Nexus of Aka Father-Infant Bonding / Barry S. Hewlett 39

II Gender and Prehistory 51

The Archaeology of Gender Today: New Vistas, New Challenges / Margaret W. Conkey 56

The Fashioning of Women / J. M Adovasio, Olga Soffer, Jake Page 65

Warriors and Rulers: Royal Women of the Classic Maya / Stanley P. Guenter, David A. Freidel 76

III Domestic Worlds and Public Worlds 85

The Domestic Sphere of Women and the Public World of Men: The Strengths and Limitations of an Anthropological Dichotomy / Louise Lamphere 90

"It's a Pleasure to Cook for Him": Food, Mealtimes, and Gender in Some South Wales Households / Anne Murcott 99

Fatherhood and the Mediating Role of Women / Nicholas W. Townsend 109

Cities of Women / Mary Weismantel 123

IV Equality and Inequality: The Sexual Division of Labor and Gender Stratification 137

Woman the Hunter: The Agta / Agnes Estioko-Griffin, P. Bion Griffin 143

Gender, Horticulture, and the Division of Labor on Vanatinai / Maria Lepowsky 152

Do Tents and Herds Still Matter? Pastoral Nomadism and Gender among the Tuareg in Niger and Mali / Susan Rasmussen 162

Women and Work in a Postrevolutionary Society: Urban Cooperatives and the Informal Economy in Nicaragua / Florence E. Babb 174

V The Cultural Construction of Gender and Personhood 191

My Encounter with Machismo in Spain / David D. Gilmore 196

Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea / Gilbert H. Herdt 211

The Named and the Nameless: Gender and Person in Chinese Society / Rubie S. Watson 215

Gender and the Stories Pittsburgh Police Officers Tell about Using Physical Force / Bonnie McElhinny 227

The Making and Unmaking of Persons: Gender and Body in Northeast India / Sarah Lamb 237

VI Culture, Sexuality, and the Body 249

Is There a Muslim Sexuality? Changing Constructions of Sexuality in Egyptian Bedouin Weddings / Lila Abu-Lughod 255

From Pollution to Love Magic: The New Anthropology of Menstruation / Alma Gottlieb 264

Hijras: An "Alternative" Sex/Gender in India / Gayatri Reddy, Serena Nanda 275

Measuring Up to Barbie: Ideals of the Feminine Body in Popular Culture / Jacqueline Urla, Alan C. Swedlund 282

VII Gender, Property, and the State 297

Thinking about Women and the Origin of the State / Rayna Rapp 302

Dowry, Bride-Burning, and Female Power in India / Linda Stone, Caroline James 308

Encountering the State: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women's Political Experience / Josephine Caldwell Ryan 317

Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunch-Box as Ideological State Apparatus / Anne Allison 329

VIII Gender, Household, and Kinship 347

Beyond the "Pattern of Heaven": Gender, Kinship and the Family in China / Monica Cable 352

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Labyrinth of Working and Parenting in a Poor Community / Sharon Hicks-Bartlett 362

Matrifocality, Power, and Gender Relations in Jamaica / Marsha Prior 377

The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship / Micaela di Leonardo 385

IX Gender, Ritual, and Religion 395

Spirit Possession and Gender Complementarity: Zar in Rural Northern Sudan / Janice Boddy 401

"Tradition" and Threat: Women's Obscenity in Giriama Funerary Rituals / Janet McIntosh 412

Shamans, Bodies, and Sex: Misreading a Korean Ritual / Laurel Kendall 425

Women, Religion, and Modernization: Tradition and Transformation among Elderly Jews in Israel / Susan Starr Sered 437

X Gender, Politics, and Reproduction 449

Gender and Ritual: Giving Birth the American Way / Robbie E. Davis-Floyd 455

Political Demography: The Banning of Abortion in Ceausescu's Romania / Gail Kligman 467

Surrogate Motherhood: Rethinking Biological Models, Kinship, and Family / Helena Ragone 482

Female Genital Cutting: Culture and Controversy / Ellen Gruenbaum 491

XI Culture Contact, Development, and the Global Economy 505

The Impact of Development on Women: The Interplay of Material Conditions and Gender Ideology / Victoria S. Lockwood 510

Doing Their Homework: The Dilemma of Planning Women's Garden Programs in Bangladesh / Margot Wilson-Moore 525

Factory as Home and Family: Female Workers in the Moroccan Garment Industry / M. Laetitia Cairoli 532

Sexuality and Discipline among Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong / Nicole Constable 545

"Wild Pigs and Dog Men": Rape and Domestic Violence as "Women's Issues" in Papua New Guinea / Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi 564.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780136061328

013606132X

OCLC:

219569416