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• I. THE IMPACT OF MATERIAL CONDITIONS ON GENDER ROLES.
• 1. Prologue.
• 2. Egalitarian Foraging Societies.
• 3. Pastoral and Horticultural Societies.
• 4. Stratified Economics
• 5. Agricultural States
• 6. Industrial Economy: The United States.
• 7. Global Economic Development. II. IDEOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON GENDER CONSTRUCTS.
• 8. Gender and the Body.
• 9. Gender and Religion.
• 10. Gender and Language.
• 11. Epilogue. Glossary. Index.
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For gender courses taught in anthropology, women's studies, sociology, and psychology departments. A cross-cultural study of gender roles and relationships, this text presents a synthesis of a wide range of ethnographic and historical data concerning the roles of women and men in many different kinds of societies-with a focus on both material conditions and ideological valuations that affect and reflect cultural models of gender.
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• 1. Biology, Gender, and Human Evolutio
• n2. Gender and Prehistor
• y3. Domestic Worlds and Public World
• s4. The Cultural Construction of Gender and Personhoo
• d5. Culture and Sexualit
• y6. Equality and Inequality: The Sexual Division of Labour and Gender Stratificatio
• n7. Gender, Property, and the Stat
• e8. Gender, Household, and Kinshi
• p9. Gender, Ritual, and Religio
• n10. Gender, Politics, and Reproductio
• n11. Colonialism, Development, and the Global Economy.
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This reader introduces students to the most significant topics in the field of the anthropology of gender, drawing not only from classic sources but also from the most recent, diverse literature on gender roles and ideology around the world. It takes a clear, accessible approach to subject matter, making coverage appropriate for students from a variety of levels.
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• Australia
• Brazil
• Canada
• Egypt
• Finland
• France
• Greece
• Haiti
• Hong Kong
• India
• Israel
• Italy
• Japan
• Korea
• Mexico
• New Zealand
• Nigeria
• Peru
• Philippines
• Poland
• Portugal
• Singapore
• South Africa, Republic of
• The Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Era
• Sri Lanka
• Taiwan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Tibet
• Turkey
• United States.
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This reference surveys and synthesises information on gender roles in more than 30 countries from around the world. Each chapter is devoted to a single country, and the chapters are arranged in alphabetical order for ease of use. All of the chapters are written from the perspective of experts who have lived and worked in the countries profiled. To foster cross-national comparisons, each chapter follows the same format, including an introduction and contextual overview; gender roles in infancy and childhood, school years, young adulthood, and old age; and a summary and conclusions. The design of the chapters traces the development of gender roles across the life-cycle and affords an additional opportunity for comparing data. This reference should be of interest to anyone concerned with gender issues, psychology, sociology and anthropology.
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• Preface to the Second Edition 1. An Introduction to Women, Culture and Development - Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran and Priya A. Kurian Visions I Maria's Stories - Maria Ofelia Navarrete The Woof and the Warp - Luisa Valenzuela Consider the Problem of Privatisation - Anna Tsing
• Part I: Sexuality and the Gendered Body 2. More `"Tragedies" in Out-of-the-Way Places: Oceanic Interpretations of Another Scale' - Yvonne Underhill-Sem with Kaita Sem 3. `Revolution with a Woman's Face'? Family Norms, Constitutional Reform, and the Politics of Redistribution in Post/Neoliberal Ecuador - Amy Lind 4. Claiming the State: Revisiting Women's Reproductive Identity in India's Development Policy - Rachel Simon-Kumar 5. Abortion and African Culture: A Case Study of Kenya - Jane Wambui Njagi 6. Bodies and Choices: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water - Ifi Amadiume
• Visions II Empowerment: Snakes and Ladders - Jan Nederveen Pieterse Gendered Sexualities and Lived Experience: Revisiting the Case of Gay Sexuality in Women, Culture and Development - Dana Collins Revolutionary Women's Struggle and Leadership: Building Local Political Power in Rural Areas in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization - Peter Chua `What Should I Say about a Dream?': Reflections on Adolescent Girls, Agency and Citizenship - Gauri Nandedkar
• Part II: Environment, Technology, Science 7. New Lenses with Limited Vision: Shell Scenarios, Science Fiction, Storytelling Wars - David McKie with Akanksha Munshi-Kurian 8. Development Nationalism: Science, Religion and the Quest for a Modern India - Banu Subramaniam 9. What Would Rachel Say? - Joni Seager 10. Negotiating Human-Nature Boundaries, Cultural Hierarchies and Masculinist Paradigms of Development Studies - Priya A. Kurian and Debashish Munshi 11. The Intersection of Women, Culture and Development: Conversations about Visions for the Future - Take Two - Arturo Escobar and Wendy Harcourt
• Visions III Alternatives to Development: Of Love, Dreams and Revolution - John Foran Dreams and Process in Development Theory and Practice - Light Carruyo The Subjective Side of Development: Sources of Well-Being, Resources for Struggle - Linda Klouzal
• Part III: The Cultural Politics of Representation 12. Of Rural Mothers, Urban Whores and Working Daughters: Women and the Critique of Neocolonial Development in Taiwan's Nativist Literature - Ming-yan Lai 13. Revisiting the mostaz'af and the mostakbar - Minoo Moallem 14. Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter: `Women, Culture and Development' from a Francophone or Postcolonial Perspective - Anjali Prabhu 15. The Precarious Middle Class: Gender, Risk and Mobility in the New Indian Economy - Raka Ray
• Visions IV An Antipodean Take on Gender, Culture and Development Co-operation - Susanne Schech On Activist Scholarship and Women, Culture and Development - Julie Shayne Women, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainable Development - Sangion Appiee Tiu Reimagining Climate Justice: What the World Needs Now is Love, Hope ... and You - John Foran
• Postscript: A Conversation about the Future of Women, Culture and Development - Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya A. Kurian and Debashish Munshi.
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Straddling disciplines and continents, Feminist Futures interweaves scholarship and social activism to explore the evolving position of women in the South. Working at the intersection of cultural studies, critical development studies and feminist theory, the book's contributors articulate a radical and innovative framework for understanding the linkages between women, culture and development, applying it to issues ranging from sexuality and the gendered body to the environment, technology and the cultural politics of representation. This revised and updated edition brings together leading academics, as well as a new generation of activists and scholars, to provide a fresh perspective on the ways in which women in the South are transforming our understanding of development.
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In the last three decades, progress has occurred in the study of gender within anthropology. "Gendered Anthropology" offers a thought-provoking examination of current debates focusing on sex and gender, race, ethnicity, politics and economics. It provides insights which are still too often lacking in mainstream anthropology. "Gendered Anthropology" should be of particular value to undergraduates and lecturers in social anthropology and gender studies.
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• Women in the United States of America and Canada / Florence L. Denmark, Laurel Schwartz, and Kathleen Maurer Smith
• Women of the Arctic (Alaska) : a culture in transition / Margaret Fischer
• Women in Latin America / Ruben Ardila
• Women in Poland / Halina Grzymala-Moszczynska
• Women in the USSR / Lena Zhernova
• Soviet women / Harold Takooshian
• Growing up female : a life-span perspective on women in Israel / Marilyn P. Safir and Dafna N. Izraeli
• Women in Egypt and the Sudan / Ramadan A. Ahmed
• Some traditional aspects of Nigerian women / Nmutaka Agnes Oby Okafor
• Life stages in the development of the Hindu woman in India / Usha Kumar
• Tribal women of India : the Tharu women / Uma Singhal and Hihar R. Mrinal
• Women in Thailand / Harry W. Gardiner and Ormsin Sornmoonpin Gardiner
• Women in China / Lucy C. Yu and Lee Carpenter
• Women in Japan / Naohiko Fukada
• Women in Western Samoa / Corey J. Muse
• Women in Australia / Brian R. Costello and Janet Lee Taylor.

• LSP translation - Gender issues - Gendered language - Specialised domains.
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The starting point of this publication is that in LSP domains many studies have been devoted to the languages of law, medicine, media, tourism, advertising, arts and business, but they have not fully exploited the gender perspective which can disclose new insights into the use of specialized lexicon, the role of translation, the influence of cultural aspects, and social habits and values in the transmission of equality or in-equality notions. This volume aims at bridging the gap existing between LSP translation and gender issues, offering a broad view of research on translation and gender/sexuality, LSP and the professional world. The purpose is to broaden the discussion on gender awareness in specialized language and translation, to pinpoint gender issues in audiovisual translation, to analyse gendered language in the media and advertising, and last but not least, to consider gender differences reiterated through language in specific domains.
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• Part I: (BE)LONGING IN TIME.-
• Chapter 1: Curiosity Killed the... Woman: Modern Rewritings of "Bluebeard" in Literary Representations of Marital Abuse.-
• Chapter 2: New Feminine Myths as Builders of New Transcultural Horizons.-
• Chapter 3: Not by Faith Alone: Religion, Gender and the Public Domain in India.-
• Chapter 4: Subverting Brahminical Patriarchy through Myths and Folktales: Karnad's Hidden Polemic.-
• Chapter 5: Religion and the Position of Women in Indian Society: De-masculinizing Mythologies and Religio-Sexual Rites.- Part II: (BE)LONGING IN SPACE.-
• Chapter 6: Through Other Eyes: Nineteenth-Century Irish Women in South America.-
• Chapter 7: "God knows five daughters is enough for anyone": Gender Issues in India and Japan.-
• Chapter 8: Rewriting Genre/Gender: Crime Fiction by Women from India and Latin America.-
• Chapter 9: Gender Revolution in Socialist Cuba: Up to a Certain Point.-
• Chapter 10: Bodies of Pleasure: Rethinking Gender, Space and Identity.- Part III: PERFORMING (BE)LONGING.-
• Chapter 11: 'Devadasi' Reform in Colonial South India: The Case of Radhika Santwanam.-
• Chapter 12: Gender and Performance: The Case of Re-invention of Mohiniyattam in Early Twentieth Century Kerala.-
• Chapter 13: Wayward Women, Wicked Singing.-
• Chapter 14: Gendered Bhavas: Perpetuating Notions of 'Ideal' Male and Female Behaviour through Specific Emotions Highlighted in Acting in Mayabazar.-
• Chapter 15: The Relevance of Gender in the Narco Corrido/Narco Novel.- Part IV: MODERNITY, TECHNOLOGY AND (BE)LONGING.-
• Chapter 16: Tagore's Women Heralding the 'New Indian Woman': A Critique of the Women's Question in the Nationalist Discourse.-
• Chapter 17: Manasi to Neera: the Evolution of the Concept of 'Muse' in Modern Bengali Poetry.-
• Chapter 18: "Gulabi Talkies": Technology, Empowerment and Changing Spaces Women Occupy.-
• Chapter 19: 'Because You're Worth It': The New Woman in Post Liberalisation Women's Magazines in India.-
• Chapter 20: "Googling Baby".
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Transcultural Negotiations of Gender probes into how gender is negotiated along the two axes of 'belonging' and 'longing'- the twin desires of being located within a cultural milieu, while yearning for either what has passed by or what is yet to come. It also probes into the category of 'transculturality' itself, by examining how not only does it pertain to the coming together of cultures from diverse spatial locations, but how shifts over time and changing performative modes and technological means of articulation, within what may be presumed to be the same culture, can also lead to the 'transcultural'. The volume comprises four sections. Part I, '(Be)longing in Time', examines negotiation of gender through transcultural acts of myths, rituals and religious practices being revised and revisited over time. Part II, '(Be)longing in Space', studies how gender is renegotiated when people from different spaces interact, as also when public spaces and domains themselves become sites of such negotiations. In Part III, 'Performing (Be)longing', such transcultural negotiations are located in the context of changing modes of performance, considering particularly that gender itself is performative. The final section, 'Modernity, Technology and (Be)longing', traces how gender becomes transculturally negotiated in a space like India, with the advent of modernity and its companion technology.
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Beyond the Second Sex is an innovative work that challenges Simone de Beauvoir's notion that women are "the second" in every society. Anthropological inquiry into male-female relations has evolved around debates concerning sexual inequality. Based on original field research, the essays presented in this volume are not concerned with inequality per se. Rather, the authors pose ethnographic and analytical challenges in the assumptions and definitions that, in the past, have supported judgments about sexual equality and inequality. They move away from broad labels and blanket judgments in favor of addressing the conflict, contradictions, and ambiguities that are so often encountered in field research. These essays maintain that, in discussing the cultural construction and representation of gender, the "culture" that is abstracted from field data cannot be separated from a complex, ongoing, and everchanging local process. From this point of view, the editors conclude, the relationship of the sexes to each other is best discussed in terms of the conflicts, tensions, and paradoxes that are at the heart of daily life in many societies. Beyond the Second Sex will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology and women's studies.
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• 1. An Introduction to Women, Culture and Development - Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran and Priya Kurian VISIONS 1 Maria's Stories - Maria Ofelia Navarrete The Woof and the Warp - Luisa Valenzuela Consider the Problem of Privatization - Anna Tsing
• PART 1: SEXUALITY AND THE GENDERED BODY 2. 'Tragedies' in Out-of-the-way Places: Oceanic Interpretations of Another Scale - Yvonne Underhill-Sem 3. Queering Development: Institutionalized Heterosexuality in Development Theory, Practice and Politics in Latin America - Amy Lind and Jessica Share 4. Claiming the State: Women's Reproductive Identity and Indian Development - Rachel Simon-Kumar 5. Bodies and Choices: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water - Ifi Amadiume VISIONS 2 On Engendering a Better Life - Raka Ray Empowerment - Snakes and Ladders - Jan Nederveen Pieterse Gendered Sexualities and Lived Experience: The Case of Gay Sexuality in Women, Culture and Development - Dana Collins Thinking Condoms Politically, Reaching a Crossroad - Peter Chua
• PART 2: ENVIRONMENT, TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE 6. Managing Future(s): Culture, Development, Gender and the Dystopic Continuum - David McKie 7. Negotiating Human-Nature Boundaries, Cultural Hierarchies and Masculinist Paradigms of Development Studies - Priya Kurian and Debashish Munshi 8. Imagining India: Religious Nationalism in the Age of Science and Development - Banu Subramaniam VISIONS 3 Conversations towards Feminist Futures - Arturo Escobar and Wendy Harcourt Knitting a Net of Knowledge: Engendering Cyber-Technology for Disempowered Communities - Debashish Munshi and Priya A. Kurian Seeing the Complexity: Observations and Optimism from a Costa Rican Tourist Town - Darcie Dreams and Process in Development Theory and Practice - Light Carruyo
• PART 3: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION 9. Of Rural Mothers, Urban Whores and Working Daughters: Women and the Critique of Neocolonial Development in Taiwan's Nativist Literature - Ming-yan Lai 10. The Representation of Mostaz'af/'the Disempowered' in Revolutionary and Postrevolutionary Iran - Minoo Moallem 11. Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter: 'Women, Culture and Development' from a Francophone/Postcolonial Perspective - Anjali Prabhu VISIONS 4 The Subjective Side of Development: Sources of Well-being, Resources for Struggle - Linda Klouzal Culture and Resistance: A Feminist Analysis of Revolution and 'Development' - Julie Shayne Alternatives to Development: Of Love, Dreams and Revolution - John Foran.
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Globalization and the failure of development have led to the feminization of poverty, environmental degradation and an uncertain future for global peace and security. Development studies has reached an impasse, both in its theoretical paradigms and its practical prescriptions. Too economistic, too little focused on the daily lives of women and devoid of vision, the field needs a radical imaginative overhaul. The contributors to this book, who work at the intersection of cultural studies, feminist studies and critical development studies, articulate a new theoretical framework that they call "Women, Culture and Development". They apply it to a range of issues including sexuality and gender; environment, technology and science; and the cultural politics of representation, and, through a series of shorter think pieces, present their ideas for the future.
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