Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective

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
Maximo Badaro

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 UEstek 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
Jose 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
Helena Ragone


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


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Index

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.