Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective

ISBN : 9781032504100

Author : Adrienne E. Strong

Publisher : Routledge

Year : 2024

Language : English

Type : Book

Description : About the editors List of contributors Foreword Preface Acknowledgments PART 1: GENDERING BODIES 1 The theory that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is wrong Cara Ocobock and Sarah A. Lacy 2 The past is a foreign country: archaeology of sex and gender Rosemary A. Joyce 3 Animal models and gender Marlene Zuk 4 From pollution to love magic: the new anthropology of menstruation Alma Gottlieb 5 Female genital cutting: moving forward on abolition? Ellen Gruenbaum 6 Surgical transformations in the pursuit of gender Lauren E. Gulbas 7 Revisiting the hijras: an alternate sex/gender in South Asia Adnan Hossein 8 Natural birth at the turn of the twenty-first century: implications for gender Margaret Macdonald 9 Making room for daddy: fathers and breastfeeding in the United States Sarah Sobonya 10 Masculinities, muscularities, and eating disorders among young men in South Korea Lawrence T. Monocello PART 2: GENDER, KINSHIP, and FAMILY 11 Gender, horticulture, and the division of labor on Vanatinai Maria Lepowsky 12 Factory as home and family: female workers in the Moroccan garment industry M. Laetitia Cairoli 13 Marriage, modernity, and migration: changing dynamics of intimacy in a Mexican transnational community Jennifer S. Hirsch 14 Beyond romantic partnerships: sese, gender egalitarianism, and kinship diversity in Mosuo society Chun-Yi Sum, Tami Blumenfield, and Siobhán M. Cully 15 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 16 Little princesses and tiny barons: gender, microfinance, and parental priorities in urban Ecuador Megan Bond Hinrichsen 17 Surrogate motherhood: rethinking biological models, kinship, and family Heléna Ragoné PART 3: GENDERED SPACE and KNOWLEDGE 18 The fashioning of women J. M. Adovasio, Olga Soffer, and Jake Page 19 Gender, business, and space control: Yoruba market women and power Toyin Falola 20 Taming internal weather, together: gendered knowledge flows during maternity under Khmer traditional and folk medicine systems Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam 21 The domestic sphere of women and the public world of men: the strengths and limitations of an anthropological dichotomy Louise Lamphere 22 From “private” affairs to “public” scandals: the modern woman’s challenge to husband’s infidelities in Uganda Shanti Parikh 23 Possessing spirits and healing gods: female suffering and agency in North India Anubha Sood 24 Empathetic Bhikkhuni: navigating emotion and gender in Thailand Daphne Weber PART 4: GENDER and THE STATE 25 Lifeboat ethics: mother love and child death in Northeast Brazil Nancy Scheper-Hughes 26 Political demography: the banning of abortion in Ceausescu’s Romania Gail Kligman 27 Women’s autonomy, Islam, and the French State John R. Bowen 28 Gender, sexuality, and asylum assessment Rine Vieth 29 The ‘unique blend’: reframing womanhood through Turkish drama series Funda Üstek-Spilda and Oguz Alyanak 30 Ethnographic empathy and the social context of rights: ‘rescuing’ Maasai girls from early marriage Caroline S. Archambault 31 Between a rock and a hard place: the labyrinth of working and parenting in a poor community Sharon Hicks-Bartlett 32 Madres, madrinas, mamȧs y mȧs: trans Latina mothering in and around Chicago’s sexual economies of labor Andrea Bolivar 33 Advancing an intersectional politics of belonging: LGBTQ+ Latinx activism after the Pulse shooting Nolan Kline PART 5: MASCULINITIES 34 The cultural nexus of Aka father-infant bonding Barry S. Hewlett 35 Downsizing masculinity: gender, family and fatherhood in post-industrial America Chad Broughton and Tom Walton 36 My encounter with machismo in Spain David D. Gilmore 37 “Now I gotta watch what I say”: shifting constructions of masculinity in discourse Scott F. Kiesling 38 TikTok, truckers, and travel bans: digital disease surveillance and the scrutiny of masculinity in southern Africa Rebecca L. Upton Index

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