8th Edition
Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
This fully updated new edition of Gender in the Cross-Cultural Perspective carefully introduces and responds to changes in anthropological approaches to and perspectives on gender. With two new editors and new authors from the global south and underrepresented communities, it combines theoretically and ethnographically based essays to examine gender roles and ideology around the world.
Divided thematically into five parts, the editors open each section with a succinct introduction to the principal issues. The book retains some of the classic chapters while offering new contributions and extended discussions throughout on methodology. It also has entirely new contributions that reflect more recent developments in the discipline, including more emphasis on LGBTQ+ communities, COVID, and migration. The new edition also features additional support for teaching and learning that, including a film list and discussion questions, now offered as supplemental online materials.
The 8th edition of Gender in the Cross-Cultural Perspective continues to be an essential resource for undergraduate and graduate students encountering the anthropology of gender for the first time.
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the editors
PART 1: GENDERING BODIES
1 The theory that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is wrong
Sarah Lacy And Cara Ocobock
2 The past is a foreign country: archaeology of sex and gender
Rosemary 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 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 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 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 a Faculty Affiliation in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of South Florida, USA.
