Gender in cross-cultural perspective / edited by Adrienne E. Strong and Richard Powis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strong, Adrienne E., 1988- editor.

Powis, Richard (Professor of public health), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Cross-cultural studies.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

xx, 583 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

Eighth edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

Summary:

"This fully updated new edition of Gender in the 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 essays to examine gender roles and ideology around the world. Divided thematically into five parts, the editors open 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. The new edition also features additional support for teaching and learning that, including a film list and discussion questions, now offered as supplemental online materials. The 8th edition of Gender in the Cross-Cultural Perspective continues to be an essential resource for undergraduate and graduate students encountering the anthropology of gender for the first time"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The theory that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is wrong / Sarah Lacy and Cara Ocobock

The past is a foreign country: archaeology of sex and gender / Rosemary Joyce

Animal models and gender / Marlene Zuk

From pollution to love magic: the new anthropology of menstruation / Alma Gottlieb

Female genital cutting: moving forward on abolition? / Ellen Gruenbaum

Surgical transformations in the pursuit of gender / Lauren E. Gulbas

Revisiting the Hijras: an alternate sex/gender in South Asia / Adnan Hossein

Natural birth at the turn of the twenty-first century: implications for gender / Margaret Macdonald

Making room for daddy: fathers and breastfeeding in the United States / Sarah Sobonya

Masculinities, muscularities, and eating disorders among young men in South Korea / Lawrence Monocello

Gender, horticulture, and the division of labor on Vanatinai / Maria Lepowsky

Factory as home and family: female workers in the Moroccan garment industry / M. Laetitia Cairoli

Marriage, modernity, and migration: changing dynamics of intimacy in a Mexican transnational community / Jennifer S. Hirsch

Beyond romantic partnerships: Sese, gender egalitarianism, and kinship diversity in Mosuo society / Chun Yi Sum, Tami Blumenfield, and Siobhán M. Mattison

What to do with unmarried daughters? Modern solutions to a traditional dilemma in a polyandrous Tibetan society / Geoff Childs, Melvyn C. Goldstein, And Puchung Wangdui

Little princesses and tiny barons: gender, microfinance, and parental priorities in urban Ecuador / Megan Bond Hinrichsen

Surrogate motherhood: rethinking biological models, kinship, and family / Heléna Ragoné

The fashioning of women / J. M. Adovasio, Olga Soffer, and Jake Page

Gender, business, and space control: Yoruba market women and power / Toyin Falola

Taming internal weather, together: gendered knowledge flows during maternity under Khmer traditional and folk medicine systems / Thao Dam

The domestic sphere of women and the public world of men: the strengths and limitations of an anthropological dichotomy / Louise Lamphere

From "private" affairs to "public" scandals: the modern woman's challenge to husband's infidelities in Uganda / Shanti Parikh

Possessing spirits and healing gods: female suffering and agency in North India / Anubha Sood

Empathetic Bhikkhuni: navigating emotion and gender in Thailand / Daphne Weber

Lifeboat ethics: mother love and child death in Northeast Brazil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Political demography: the banning of abortion in Ceausescu's Romania / Gail Kligman

Women's autonomy, Islam, and the French state / John R. Bowen

Gender, sexuality, and asylum assessment / Rine Vieth

The 'unique blend': reframing womanhood through Turkish drama series / Funda Üstek and Oguz Alyanak

Ethnographic empathy and the social context of rights: 'rescuing' Maasai girls from early marriage / Caroline S. Archambault

Between a rock and a hard place: the labyrinth of working and parenting in a poor community / Sharon Hicks-Bartlett

Madres, madrinas, mamȧs y mȧs: trans Latina mothering in and around

Chicago's sexual economies of labor / Andrea Bolivar

Advancing an intersectional politics of belonging: LGBTQ+ Latinx activism after the Pulse shooting / Nolan Kline

The cultural nexus of Aka father-infant bonding / Barry S. Hewlett

Rituals of manhood: male initiation in Papua New Guinea / Gilbert H. Herdt

Downsizing masculinity: gender, family and fatherhood in post-industrial America / Chad Broughton and Tom Walton

My encounter with machismo in Spain / David D. Gilmore

"Now I gotta watch what I say": shifting constructions of masculinity in discourse / Scott F. Kiesling

TikTok, truckers, and travel bans: digital disease surveillance and the scrutiny of masculinity in southern Africa / Rebecca Upton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gender in cross-cultural perspective

ISBN:

9781032504131

1032504137

9781032504100

1032504102

OCLC:

1416893363

Publisher Number:

90100069128