7th Edition
Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
This carefully crafted volume introduces anthropological approaches to and perspectives on gender. It combines theoretically and ethnographically based essays in order to examine gender roles and ideology around the world. Divided thematically into 11 sections, the editors open each section with a succinct introduction to the principal issues. The articles themselves, both classic and contemporary, are drawn from all fields of anthropology and cover a wide variety of cultures. The seventh edition contains 11 new entries that reflect more recent developments in the discipline, including topics such as gender identity, transnationalism and female genital cutting. Additional features to support teaching and learning that are new to this edition include a film list and discussion questions at the end of each entry. This is an essential resource for students encountering the anthropology of gender for the first time.
Preface
I. Biology, Gender, and Human Evolution
Introduction by the editors
Animal Models and Gender
Marlene Zuk
Lifeboat Ethics: Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
The Cultural Nexus of Aka Father–Infant Bonding
Barry S. Hewlett
Difference Matters: Embodiment and Discourse on Difference in an Urban Public High School
Anita Chikkatur
II. Gender and Prehistory
Introduction by the editors
The Past Is a Foreign Country: Archaeology of Sex and Gender 55
Rosemary A. Joyce
The Fashioning of Women
J. M. Adovasio, Olga Soffer, and Jake Page
Inca Gender Relations, from Household to Empire
R. Alan Covey
III. Domestic Worlds and Public Worlds
Introduction by the editors
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
Downsizing Masculinity: Gender, Family and Fatherhood in Post-Industrial America
Chad Broughton and Tom Walton
Marriage, Modernity, and Migration: Changing Dynamics of Intimacy in a Mexican Transnational Community
Jennifer S. Hirsch
IV. Equality and Inequality: The Sexual Division of Labor and Gender Stratification
Introduction by the editors
Woman the Hunter: The Agta
Agnes Estioko-Griffin and P. Bion Griffin
Gender, Horticulture, and the Division of Labor on Vanatinai
Maria Lepowsky
Ethnographic Empathy and the Social Context of Rights: “Rescuing” Maasai Girls from Early Marriage
Caroline S. Archambault
Gender, Business, and Space Control: Yoruba Market Women and Power
Toyin Falola
V. The Cultural Construction of Gender and Personhood
Introduction by the editors
My Encounter with Machismo in Spain
David D. Gilmore
Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea
Gilbert H. Herdt
Surgical Transformations in the Pursuit of Gender
Lauren E. Gulbas
“Now I Gotta Watch What I Say”: Shifting Constructions of Masculinity in Discourse
Scott Fabius Kiesling
One of the Guys: Military Women Paradoxical Individuality and the Transformation of the Argentine Army
Maximó Badaró
VI. Gender, Sexuality, and the Body
Introduction by the editors
Is There a Muslim Sexuality? Changing Constructions of Sexuality in Egyptian Bedouin Weddings
Lila Abu-Lughod
From Pollution to Love Magic: The New Anthropology of Menstruation
Alma Gottlieb
Hijras: An “Alternative” Sex/Gender in India
Gayatri Reddy and Serena Nanda
VII. Gender and the State
Introduction by the editors
Japanese Mothers and Obento–s: The Lunch-Box as Ideological State Apparatus
Anne Allison
“Single Women Are Bitter”: The Gendered Production of Affective States in Chile
Nia C. Parson
Women’s Autonomy, Islam, and the French State
John R. Bowen
The “Unique Blend”: Reframing Womanhood through Turkish Drama Series
Funda Üstek and Oguz Alyanak
Female Genital Cutting: Moving Forward on Abolition?
Ellen Gruenbaum
VIII. Gender, Household, and Kinship
Introduction by the editors
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
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Labyrinth of Working and Parenting in a Poor Community
Sharon Hicks-Bartlett
Rethinking Caribbean Families: Extending the Links
Mary Chamberlain
Resignation and Refusal: The Moral Calculus of Lesbian and Gay Parenthood in the US
Ellen Lewin
IX. Gender, Ritual, and Religion
Introduction by the editors
Possessing Spirits and Healing Gods: Resolving Women’s Suffering in a Hindu Temple
Anubha Sood
“Tradition” and Threat: Women’s Obscenity in Giriama Funerary Rituals
Janet McIntosh
Shamans, Bodies, and Sex: Misreading a Korean Ritual
Laurel Kendall
How to Change a Man: Spiritual Transformation and Shifts in Gender Ideology in Evangelical El Salvador
José Leonardo Santos
X. Gender, Politics, and Reproduction
Introduction by the editors
Natural Birth at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Implications for Gender
Margaret MacDonald
Political Demography: The Banning of Abortion in Ceausescu’s Romania
Gail Kligman
Surrogate Motherhood: Rethinking Biological Models, Kinship, and Family
Heléna Ragoné
Making Room for Daddy: Fathers and Breastfeeding in the United States
Sarah Sobonya
XI. Gender and the Global Economy
Introduction by the editors
Little Princesses and Tiny Barons: Gender, Microfinance, and Parental Priorities in Urban Ecuador
Megan Bond Hinrichsen
Factory as Home and Family: Female Workers in the Moroccan Garment Industry
M. Laetitia Cairoli
Sexuality and Discipline among Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
Nicole Constable
Genders and Spenders: Masculinity and Money I Ecuadorian Transmigration
Jason Pribilsky
Sex Tourism, Globalization, and Transnational Imaginings
Denise Brennan
Film List
Index
Biography
Caroline B. Brettell is The Ruth Collins Altshuler Endowed Professor and Director of the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute at Southern Methodist University, USA.
Carolyn F. Sargent is Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.
