Gendered Lives Global Issues

Gendered Lives Global Issues

A gender studies textbook that takes an anthropological approach. Gendered Lives takes a regional approach to examine gender issues from an anthropological perspective with a focus on globalization and intersectionality. Chapters present contributors’ ethnographic research, contextualizing their fin...

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Main Authors: Fernandez, Nadine T. (Author), Nelson, Katie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Geneseo, NY Milne Open Textbooks 2021.
Series:Open textbook library.
Subjects:
Social sciences > Textbooks
Gender and Sexuality Studies > Textbooks
Cultural and Ethnic Studies > Textbooks
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Key Concepts
  • Chapter 2: Key Perspectives
  • Part II: South Asia
  • Chapter 3: Introducing the Region
  • Chapter 4: Controlling National Borders by Controlling Reproduction
  • Chapter 5: Understanding Caste and Kinship within Hijras, a “Third” Gender Community in India
  • Chapter 6: The “City” and “The Easy Life”: Work and Gender among Sherpa in Nepal
  • Part III: Latin America
  • Chapter 7: Latin America: Introducing the Region
  • Chapter 8: Being a Good Mexican Man by Embracing “Erectile Dysfunction”
  • Chapter 9: Intersectionality and Normative Masculinity in Northeast Brazil
  • Chapter 10: Mexico’s Antipoverty Program Oportunidades and the Shifting Dynamics of Citizenship for Ñuu Savi (Mixtec) Village Women
  • Chapter 11: Q’eqchi’-Maya Women: Memory, Markets, and Multilevel Marketing in Guatemala
  • Part IV: The Caribbean
  • Chapter 12: The Caribbean: Introducing the Region
  • Chapter 13: Quinceañeras: Girls’ Coming-of-Age Parties in Contemporary Havana, Cuba
  • Chapter 14: Jamaican Realities of Masculinities and Sexualities: “How Far Have We Come since Michel Foucault?”
  • Part V: The Global North (North America and Europe)
  • Chapter 15: The Global North: Introducing the Region
  • Chapter 16: Mothers Acting up Online
  • Chapter 17: Male Sex Work in Canada: Intersections of Gender and Sexuality
  • Chapter 18: Intersectionality and Muslim Women in Belgium
  • Chapter 19: Fatherhood and Family Relations in Transnational Migration from Mezcala, Mexico

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