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Subject(s)

• Women—Cross-cultural studies [Browse]
• Sex role—Cross-cultural studies [Browse]
• Women—Social conditions [Browse]
• Power (Social sciences) [Browse]

Editor

• Hodgson, Dorothy Louise [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Part I. Key Debates, Past and Present. Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture? / Sherry B. Ortner
• Female Forms of Power and the Myth of Male Dominance: A Model of Female-Male Interaction in Peasant Society / Susan Carol Rogers
• Lifeboat Ethics: Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes
• The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power Through Bedouin Women / Lila Abu-Lughod
• Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival / Saba Mahmood
• Transnational Surrogacy in India: Interrogating Power and Women's Agency / Daisy Deomampo
• The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes / Don Kulick
• "Playing with Fire": The Gendered Construction of Chicana-Mexicana Sexuality / Patricia Zavella
• On the Edge of Respectability: Sexual Politics in China's Tibet / Charlene E. Makley
• "Like a Mother to Them": Stratified Reproduction and West Indian Childcare Workers and Employers in New York / Shellee Colen
• Ethnically Correct Dolls: Toying with the Race Industry / Elizabeth Chin
• "Strong Women" and "Pretty Girls": Self-Provisioning, Gender, and Class Identity in Rural Galicia / Sharon R. Roseman
• Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses / Chandra Talpade Mohanty
• A Home Girl Goes Home: Black Feminism and the Lure of Native Anthropology / Cheryl R. Rodriguez
• Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?: Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others / Lila Abu-Lughod.
• Part II. Becoming-Being Gendered. Growing Girls-Closing Circles: Limits on the Spaces of Knowing in Rural Sudan and U.S. Cities / Cindi Katz
• "Do it for all your Pubic Hairs!": Latino Boys, Masculinity, and Puberty / Richard Mora
• Trans Youth, Science, and Art: Creating (Trans) Gendered Space / Alison Rooke
• Anger, Gender, Language Shift, and the Politics of Revelation in a Papua New Guinean Village / Don Kulick
• Performing Gender Identity: Young Men's Talk and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity / Deborah Cameron
• Do Clothes Make the Woman?: Gender, Performance Theory, and Lesbian Eroticism / Kath Weston
• Weighty Subjects: The Biopolitics of the U.S. War on Fat / Susan Greenhalgh
• Middle-Class Compassion and Man Boobs / Thaïs Machado-Borges
• The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia / Aihwa Ong
• Warriors, Hunters, and Bruce Lee: Gendered Agency and the Transformation of Masculinity in Amazonia / Casey High
• Women on the Market: Modernity, Marriage, and the Internet in Cameroon / Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
• Negotiating Identities-Queering Desires: Coming Out Online and the Remediation of the Coming-Out Story / Mary Gray.
• Part III. Gendered Negotiations. "Gone to Their Second Husbands": Marital Metaphors and Conjugal Contracts in the Gambia's Female Garden Sector / Richard Schroeder
• Black Women Have Always Worked: Is There a Work-Family Conflict Among the Black Middle Class? / Riché J. Daniel Barnes
• Scoring Men: Vasectomies, Gender Relations, and Male Sexuality in Oaxaca / Matthew C. Gutmann
• Designing Women: Corporate Discipline and Barbados's Off-Shore Pink-Collar Sector / Carla Freeman
• Mothering, Work, and Gender in Urban Asante Ideology and Practice / Gracia Clark
• Man Enough To Let My Wife Support Me: Gender and Unemployment Among Middle-Class U.S. Tech Workers / Carrie M. Lane
• State versus Islam: Malay Families, Women's Bodies, and the Body Politic in Malaysia / Aihwa Ong
• Creating Citizens, Making Men: The Military and Masculinity in Bolivia / Lesley Gill
• The Intimacy of State Power: Marriage, Liberation, and Socialist Subjects in Southeastern China / Sara L. Friedman.
• Part IV. Gender Matters. Filipina Migrants in Rural Japan and Their Professions of Love / Lieba Faier
• "Now I Am a Man and a Woman!": Gendered Moves and Migrations in a Transnational Mexican Community / Deborah A. Boehm
• Homeland Beauty: Transnational Longing and Hmong American Video / Louisa Schein
• The Intimacies of Power: Rethinking Violence and Affinity in the Bolivian Andes / Krista Van Vleet
• Reconstructing Masculinities: The Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration of Former Combatants in Colombia / Kimberly Theidon
• The Construction of Indigenous Suspects: Militarization and the Gendered and Ethnic Dynamics of Human Rights Abuses in Southern Mexico / Lynn Stephen
• Feminist Negotiations: Contesting Narratives of the Campaign against Acid Violence in Bangladesh / Elora Halim Chowdhury
• "These Are not Our Priorities": Maasai Women, Human Rights, and the Problem of Culture / Dorothy L. Hodgson
• International Human Rights, Gender-Based Violence, and Local Discourses of Abuse in Postconflict Liberia: A Problem of "Culture"? / Sharon Abramowitz and Mary H. Moran.

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ISBN

• 9780190201777 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0190201770 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2015017548

OCLC

921102524

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