Title: Gender & difference in a globalizing world :
Authors: Mascia-Lees, Frances E.,
Date: 2010
Publisher: Waveland Press,
Physical description: xviii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language: English
LC classification: G
Abstract: "Francis E. Mascia-Lees' ability to synthesize complex ideas rewards readers with a text that clearly conceptualizes how differences of gender, race, class, and sexuality structure today's globalizing world. It exposes the strengths and weaknesses of different theoretical orientations used in anthropology to study gender, difference, power, and inequality including feminist anthropology; black feminist anthropology; lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered theory; practice, postcolonial, symbolic, and psychological anthropology; as well as social evolutionism, sociobiology, and evolutionary psychology, among others." "Mascia-Lees combines core components of these perspectives with insightful analyses and ethnographic examples to illustrate how global events and transformations have molded and continue to shape gender identities, behaviors, and expectations and produce and sustain worldwide inequalities. This exemplary treatment provides a solid background to understand complex issues and to think critically about remedying uneven degrees of privilege and experiences of oppression both within and across nations."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Pt. 1: Situating gender and difference within anthropology. Ch. 1. Gender, difference, and globalization -- Ch. 2. A history of gender and difference -- Ch. 3. The politics of anthropology -- Pt. 2: Naturalizing gender and difference. Ch. 4. Sex difference--nature and nurture -- Ch. 5. The evolution of gender and difference -- Pt. 3: Political economy and the production of culture. Ch. 6. Production, Capitalism, ideology, and the state -- Ch. 7. The global econom, neoliberalism, and labor -- Ch. 8. Producing culture--from structure to agency -- Pt. 4: The personal as political. Ch. 9. Embodying politics -- Ch. 10. Minding gender and difference -- Ch. 11. Reproducing gender and difference -- Epilogue.
Subject headings (LCSH): Anthropology.; Ethnology.; Feminist anthropology.; Sex role and globalization.; Sex role.; Social stratification.