Title: The gender, culture, and power reader /
Authors: Hodgson, Dorothy Louise,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Women Cross-cultural studies.; Sex role Cross-cultural studies; Women Social conditions.; Power (Social sciences); Power (Social sciences); Sex role; Women; Women Social conditions
Contents: Part I. Key Debates, Past and Present. Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture? / Sherry B. Ortner -- Female Forms of Power and the Myth of Male Dominance: A Model of Female-Male Interaction in Peasant Society / Susan Carol Rogers -- Lifeboat Ethics: Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power Through Bedouin Women / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival / Saba Mahmood -- Transnational Surrogacy in India: Interrogating Power and Women's Agency / Daisy Deomampo -- The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes / Don Kulick -- "Playing with Fire": The Gendered Construction of Chicana-Mexicana Sexuality / Patricia Zavella -- On the Edge of Respectability: Sexual Politics in China's Tibet / Charlene E. Makley -- "Like a Mother to Them": Stratified Reproduction and West Indian Childcare Workers and Employers in New York / Shellee Colen -- Ethnically Correct Dolls: Toying with the Race Industry / Elizabeth Chin -- "Strong Women" and "Pretty Girls": Self-Provisioning, Gender, and Class Identity in Rural Galicia / Sharon R. Roseman -- Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- A Home Girl Goes Home: Black Feminism and the Lure of Native Anthropology / Cheryl R. Rodriguez -- Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?: Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others / Lila Abu-Lughod.