Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (7^th Ed.)

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 1. Animal Models and Gender 2. Lifeboat Ethics: Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil 3. The Cultural Nexus of Aka Father–Infant Bonding 4. Difference Matters: Embodiment and Discourse on Difference in an Urban Public High School 5. The Past Is a Foreign Country: Archaeology of Sex and Gender 6. The Fashioning of Women 7. Inca Gender Relations, from Household to Empire 8. The Domestic Sphere of Women and the Public World of Men: The Strengths and Limitations of an Anthropological Dichotomy 9. From “Private” Affairs to “Public” Scandals: The Modern Woman’s Challenge to Husband’s Infidelities in Uganda 10. Downsizing Masculinity: Gender, Family and Fatherhood in Post-Industrial America 11. Marriage, Modernity, and Migration: Changing Dynamics of Intimacy in a Mexican Transnational Community 12. Woman the Hunter: The Agta 13. Gender, Horticulture, and the Division of Labor on Vanatinai 14. Ethnographic Empathy and the Social Context of Rights: “Rescuing” Maasai Girls from Early Marriage 15. Gender, Business, and Space Control: Yoruba Market Women and Power 16. My Encounter with Machismo in Spain 17. Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea 18. Surgical Transformations in the Pursuit of Gender 19. “Now I Gotta Watch What I Say”: Shifting Constructions of Masculinity in Discourse 20. One of the Guys: Military Women Paradoxical Individuality and the Transformation of the Argentine Army 21. Is There a Muslim Sexuality? Changing Constructions of Sexuality in Egyptian Bedouin Weddings 22. From Pollution to Love Magic: The New Anthropology of Menstruation 23. Hijras: An “Alternative” Sex/Gender in India 24. The Gender of Brazilian Transgender Prostitutes 25. Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunch-Box as Ideological State Apparatus 26. “Single Women Are Bitter”: The Gendered Production of Affective States in Chile 27. Women’s Autonomy, Islam, and the French State 28. The “Unique Blend”: Reframing Womanhood through Turkish Drama Series 29. Female Genital Cutting: Moving Forward on Abolition? 30. What to do with Unmarried Daughters? Modern Solutions to a Traditional Dilemma in a Polyandrous Tibetan Society 31. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Labyrinth of Working and Parenting in a Poor Community 32. Rethinking Caribbean Families: Extending the Links 33. Resignation and Refusal: The Moral Calculus of Lesbian and Gay Parenthood in the US 34. Possessing Spirits and Healing Gods: Resolving Women’s Suffering in a Hindu Temple 35. “Tradition” and Threat: Women’s Obscenity in Giriama Funerary Rituals 36. Shamans, Bodies, and Sex: Misreading a Korean Ritual 37. How to Change a Man: Spiritual Transformation and Shifts in Gender Ideology in Evangelical El Salvador 38. Natural Birth at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Implications for Gender 39. Political Demography: The Banning of Abortion in Ceausescu’s Romania 40. Surrogate Motherhood: Rethinking Biological Models, Kinship, and Family 41. Making Room for Daddy: Fathers and Breastfeeding in the United States 42. Little Princesses and Tiny Barons: Gender, Microfinance, and Parental Priorities in Urban Ecuador 43. Factory as Home and Family: Female Workers in the Moroccan Garment Industry 44. Sexuality and Discipline among Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong 45. Genders and Spenders: Masculinity and Money I Ecuadorian Transmigration 46. Sex Tourism, Globalization, and Transnational Imaginings Film ListIndex

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.