Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective

About the editors

List of contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART 1: GENDERING BODIES 

1 The theory that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is wrong

Cara Ocobock and Sarah A. Lacy

2 The past is a foreign country: archaeology of sex and gender

Rosemary A. Joyce

3 Animal models and gender

Marlene Zuk

4 From pollution to love magic: the new anthropology of menstruation

Alma Gottlieb

5 Female genital cutting: moving forward on abolition?

Ellen Gruenbaum 

6 Surgical transformations in the pursuit of gender

Lauren E. Gulbas 

7 Revisiting the hijras: an alternate sex/gender in South Asia

Adnan Hossein

8 Natural birth at the turn of the twenty-first century: implications for gender

Margaret Macdonald 

9 Making room for daddy: fathers and breastfeeding in the United States

Sarah Sobonya 

10 Masculinities, muscularities, and eating disorders among young men in South Korea

Lawrence T. Monocello

PART 2: GENDER, KINSHIP, and FAMILY

11 Gender, horticulture, and the division of labor on Vanatinai

Maria Lepowsky

12 Factory as home and family: female workers in the Moroccan garment industry

M. Laetitia Cairoli

13 Marriage, modernity, and migration: changing dynamics of intimacy in a Mexican transnational community

Jennifer S. Hirsch

14 Beyond romantic partnerships: sese, gender egalitarianism, and kinship diversity in Mosuo society

Chun-Yi Sum, Tami Blumenfield, and Siobhán M. Cully

15 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

16 Little princesses and tiny barons: gender, microfinance, and parental priorities in urban Ecuador

Megan Bond Hinrichsen

17 Surrogate motherhood: rethinking biological models, kinship, and family

Heléna Ragoné

PART 3: GENDERED SPACE and KNOWLEDGE 

18 The fashioning of women

J. M. Adovasio, Olga Soffer, and Jake Page 

19 Gender, business, and space control: Yoruba market women and power

Toyin Falola 

20 Taming internal weather, together: gendered knowledge flows during maternity under Khmer traditional and folk medicine systems

Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam

21 The domestic sphere of women and the public world of men: the strengths and limitations of an anthropological dichotomy

Louise Lamphere 

22 From “private” affairs to “public” scandals: the modern woman’s challenge to husband’s infidelities in Uganda

Shanti Parikh 

23 Possessing spirits and healing gods: female suffering and agency in North India

Anubha Sood 

24 Empathetic Bhikkhuni: navigating emotion and gender in Thailand

Daphne Weber 

PART 4: GENDER and THE STATE 

25 Lifeboat ethics: mother love and child death in Northeast Brazil

Nancy Scheper-Hughes 

26 Political demography: the banning of abortion in Ceausescu’s Romania

Gail Kligman 

27 Women’s autonomy, Islam, and the French State

John R. Bowen 

28 Gender, sexuality, and asylum assessment

Rine Vieth 

29 The ‘unique blend’: reframing womanhood through Turkish drama series

Funda Üstek-Spilda and Oguz Alyanak 

30 Ethnographic empathy and the social context of rights: ‘rescuing’ Maasai girls from early marriage

Caroline S. Archambault 

31 Between a rock and a hard place: the labyrinth of working and parenting in a poor community

Sharon Hicks-Bartlett 

32 Madres, madrinas, mamȧs y mȧs: trans Latina mothering in and around Chicago’s sexual economies of labor

Andrea Bolivar 

33 Advancing an intersectional politics of belonging: LGBTQ+ Latinx activism after the Pulse shooting

Nolan Kline 

PART 5: MASCULINITIES 

34 The cultural nexus of Aka father-infant bonding

Barry S. Hewlett 

35 Downsizing masculinity: gender, family and fatherhood in post-industrial America

Chad Broughton and Tom Walton 

36 My encounter with machismo in Spain

David D. Gilmore 

37 “Now I gotta watch what I say”: shifting constructions of masculinity in discourse

Scott F. Kiesling 

38 TikTok, truckers, and travel bans: digital disease surveillance and the scrutiny of masculinity in southern Africa

Rebecca L. Upton

Index

Biography

Adrienne E. Strong is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Affiliate of the Center for African Studies and Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Florida, USA.

Richard Powis is Assistant Professor of Maternal and Child Health in the College of Public Health and has Faculty Affiliation in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of South Florida, USA.