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The Gender, Culture, and Power Reader explores different approaches to the study and conceptualization of gender, the value and limitations of gender as an analytic category, and the theoretical insights about gender produced past ethnographic research into the everyday lives, labors, loves, and livelihoods of people throughout the world. Why does gender "matter"? How are dominant ideas and practices of gender perceived, produced, experienced, and contested in dissimilar societies? How does ethnographic inquiry provide access to these stories, perspectives, and experiences? What is the relationship betwixt show and theory? The Gender, Civilization, and Ability Reader addresses these questions and more than. Expertly edited by Dorothy L. Hodgson, this diverse reader includes both classical debates and relevant contemporary topics like gender-based violence and man rights.

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Dorothy Hodgson is Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Section of Anthropology at Rutgers University. She is the author of several books, including Being Maasai, Becoming Ethnic: Postcolonial Politics in a Neoliberal World (2011) and The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters between Maasai and Missionaries (2005).

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"The approach of this book is engaged, political, and theoretical. Information technology looks like a perfect fit for my course."--Angela Montague, University of Oregon

"This reader conspicuously outshines those currently bachelor. Its organization and scope, and certainly its currency, are its principal strengths. I am impressed with the multi-dimensionality of Hodgson's arroyo to gender, the book's strong global reach, and the range of ethnographic articles. Its best characteristic is that it brings together current literature with a solid ethnographic foundation, with excellent introduction to theory and critiques of gender approaches."--Melinda Leach, University of Northward Dakota

"This book is a very welcome addition the written report of gender in anthropology. It appears to take it all--an updated arroyo, well-organized sections, a good narrative to the study of gender in anthropology, and broad-ranging and diverse subjects that ought to interest students."--Jennifer Erickson, Ball State University

Preface
Acknowledgments
Key Terms
About the Editor

Part I. Key Debates, Past and Present 1. Challenging Universals
one.one Is Female person to Male every bit Nature is to Culture? ~ Sherry B. Ortner
1.2 Female Forms of Power and the Myth of Male person Dominance: A Model of Female/Male Interaction in Peasant Lodge ~ Susan Carol Rogers
i.3 Lifeboat Ideals: Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil ~ Nancy Scheper-Hughes

two. Ability, Agency, Structure
two.1 The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power Through Bedouin Women ~ Lila Abu-Lughod
2.2 Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival ~ Saba Mahmood
2.three Transnational Surrogacy in India: Interrogating Ability and Women's Agency ~ Daisy Deomampo

3. Gender, Sex, and Sexuality
three.one The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes ~ Don Kulick
three.two "Playing with Burn": The Gendered Construction of Chicana/Mexicana Sexuality ~ Patricia Zavella
three.3 On the Edge of Respectability: Sexual Politics in People's republic of china'due south Tibet ~ Charlene E. Makley

4. Complicating Gender
four.1 "Like a Mother to Them": Stratified Reproduction and West Indian Childcare Workers and Employers in New York ~ Shellee Colen
4.2 Ethnically Correct Dolls: Toying with the Race Industry ~ Elizabeth Chin
iv.3 "Stiff Women" and "Pretty Girls": Cocky-Provisioning, Gender, and Grade Identity in Rural Galicia ~ Sharon R. Roseman

five. Politics of Representation
v.one Nether Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses ~ Chandra Mohanty
5.2 A Abode Girl Goes Home: Black Feminism and the Lure of Native Anthropology ~ Cheryl R. Rodriguez
v.3 Do Muslim Women Really Demand Saving? ~ Lila Abu-Lughod

Office II. Becoming/Being Gendered 6. Growing up Gendered
half-dozen.ane Growing Girls/Endmost Circles: Limits on the Spaces of Knowing in Rural Sudan and U.Due south. Cities ~ Cindi Katz
6.2 "Do it for all your Pubic Hairs": Latino Boys, Masculinity and Puberty ~ Richard Mora
6.iii Trans Youth, Science and Art: Creating (Trans) Gendered Space ~ Alison Rooke

7. Language and Performance
seven.1 Anger, Gender, Linguistic communication Shift and the Politics of Revelation in a Papua New Guinean Hamlet ~ Don Kulick
7.ii Performing Gender Identity: Young Men'south Talk and the Structure of Heterosexual Masculinity ~ Deborah Cameron
vii.3 Do Dress Brand the Woman?: Gender, Performance Theory, and Lesbian Eroticism ~ Kath Weston

eight. Bodies / Embodiment
eight.i Weighty Subjects: The Biopolitics of the United states of america War on Fat ~ Susan Greenhalgh
8.2 Middle-Class Pity and Man Boobs ~ Thaïs Machado-Borges
8.three The Product of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia ~ Aihwa Ong

ix. Mediated Lives
ix.ane Warriors, Hunters, and Bruce Lee: Gendered Bureau and the Transformation of Amazonian Masculinity ~ Casey Loftier
9.2 Women on the Market: Marriage, Consumption, and the Internet in Urban Cameroon ~ Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
nine.3 Negotiating Identities/Queering Desires: Coming Out Online and the Remediation of the Coming-Out Story ~ Mary Grey

Part Iii. Gendered Negotiations 10. Gender at Habitation
10.1 "Gone to Their 2d Husbands": Marital Metaphors and Conjugal Contracts in the Gambia's Female person Garden Sector ~ Richard Schroeder
10.two Black Women Have Always Worked: Is There a Work-Family Conflict Among the Blackness Middle Class? ~ Riché J. Daniel Barnes
10.three Scoring Men: Vasectomies, Gender Relations and Male Sexuality in Oaxaca ~ Matthew C. Gutmann

xi. Gender at Work
11.i Designing Women: Corporate Subject area and Barbados's Off-Shore Pink-Collar Sector ~ Carla Freeman
xi.two Mothering, Work, and Gender in Urban Asante Credo and Practise ~ Gracia Clark
11.3 Man Plenty To Let My Wife Support Me: Gender and Unemployment Among Middle-Class U.Southward. Tech Workers ~ Carrie M. Lane

12. Gendered States
12.ane Country versus Islam: Malay Families, Women'southward Bodies, and the Trunk Politic in Malaysia ~ Aihwa Ong
12.ii Creating Citizens, Making Men: The Military and Masculinity in Bolivia ~ Lesley Gill
12.3 The Intimacy of State Ability: Marriage, Liberation, and Socialist Subjects in Southeastern Prc ~ Sara L. Friedman

Office IV. Gender Matters 13. Global Connections of Life, Labor and Love
13.one Filipina Migrants in Rural Japana and Their Professions of Love ~ Lieba Faier
13.ii "Now I Am a Man and a Woman!": Gendered Moves and Migrations in a Transnational Mexican Community ~ Deborah A. Boehm
13.three Homeland Dazzler: Transnational Longing and Hmong American Video ~ Louisa Schein

14. Structures of Violence
14.1 The Intimacies of Ability: Rethinking Violence and Affinity in the Bolivian Andes ~ Krista Van Vleet
14.two Reconstructing Masculinities: The Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration of Onetime Combatants in Colombia ~ Kimberly Theidon
14.3 The Structure of Indigenous Suspects: Militarization and the Gendered and Ethnic Dynamics of Homo Rights Abuses in Southern United mexican states ~ Lynn Stephen

xv. Politics of Homo Rights and Humanitarian Interventions
15.1 Feminist Negotiations: Contesting Narratives of the Campaign against Acrid Violence in People's republic of bangladesh ~ Elora Halim Chowdhury
15.2 "These Are not Our Priorities": Maasai Women, Human Rights, and the Problem of Culture ~ Dorothy L. Hodgson
15.three International Human Rights, Gender-Based Violence, and Local Discourses of Corruption in Postconflict Liberia: A Problem of "Civilization"? ~ Sharon Abramowitz and Mary H. Moran

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