1st Edition
Gender, Agency and Change Anthropological Perspectives
By Victoria Goddard
Copyright 2000
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
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In response to global change, people create new opportunities and conditions, and in their responses they are influenced by both gender and age. In Gender, Agency and Change the contributors illustrate the complexities involved in the constitution and performance of agency. Such agency may be reflected in strategies of accommodation and adaption that can nevertheless produce new institutional... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: Gender and Difference; 3: Women Are Women or How to Please Your Husband; 4: Kinship, Gender and Work in Socialist and Post-Socialist Rural Poland; 5: Properties of Identity; 5: Gendered Houses; 7: Gender and Politics Through Language Practices Among Urban Cape Verde Men; 8: Out of the House - To Do What?; 9: The 'old Red Woman' against the 'young Blue Hooligan'; 10: 'The Virgin and the State'; 11: Writing the Usual Love Story
Biography
Victorial Ana Goddard was born in Argentina and trained as an anthropologist at University College, London. She is currently a lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, London.
