This volume, the first comprehensive overview of Scandinavian cross-cultural research on gender issues in the English language, addresses fundamental analytical issues currently debated within international feminist anthropology and beyond. Offering examples from a wide range of ethnographic settings, the essays show that gender comprises far more than sexual relationships: it takes on political significance insofar as it influences the distribution of resources and access to public and domestic spheres, to knowledge and to ...
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This volume, the first comprehensive overview of Scandinavian cross-cultural research on gender issues in the English language, addresses fundamental analytical issues currently debated within international feminist anthropology and beyond. Offering examples from a wide range of ethnographic settings, the essays show that gender comprises far more than sexual relationships: it takes on political significance insofar as it influences the distribution of resources and access to public and domestic spheres, to knowledge and to power.
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Minor rubbing. VG. 21x13cm, xiii, 297 pp., PAPERBACK. Series: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Women, vol. 8. Contents: Carved flesh, cast selves: an introduction / Vigdis Broch-Due and Ingrid Rudie--Making incomplete / Marilyn Strathern--Making meaning out of matter: perceptions of sex, gender and bodies among the Turkana / Vigdis Broch-Due--Transforming women into 'pure' agnates: aspects of female infibulation in Somalia / Aud Talle--Encountering femininity: the ontogenesis of Bedamini male selves / Arve Sørum--Marry the land, divorce the man: Quechua marriage and the problem of individual autonomy / Sarah Lund Skar--A rotten text? Gender, food and interpretation / Jorun Solheim and Tordis Borchgrevink--The ritual work of Malay marriage as a field of debate / Ingrid Rudie--Malay dress symbolism / Kirsten Sandborg--Ishq aur Mohabbat: ideas about love and friendship in a northern Pakistani community / Karin Ask--'I did not marry properly': the meaning of marriage payments in southern Mexico / Kari Siverts--'I want to buy me a baby! ': some reflections on gender and change in modern society / Marit Melhuus--Aspects of androgyny / Tone Bleie.
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