Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective

PART 1: GENDERING BODIES 1. The theory that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is wrong 2. The past is a foreign country: archaeology of sex and gender 3. Animal models and gender 4. From pollution to love magic: the new anthropology of menstruation 5. Female genital cutting: moving forward on abolition? 6. Surgical transformations in the pursuit of gender 7. Revisiting the hijras: an alternate sex/gender in South Asia 8. Natural birth at the turn of the twenty-first century: implications for gender 9. Making room for daddy: fathers and breastfeeding in the United States 10. Masculinities, muscularities, and eating disorders among young men in South Korea PART 2: GENDER, KINSHIP, and FAMILY 11. Gender, horticulture, and the division of labor on Vanatinai 12. Factory as home and family: female workers in the Moroccan garment industry 13. Marriage, modernity, and migration: changing dynamics of intimacy in a Mexican transnational community 14. Beyond romantic partnerships: sese, gender egalitarianism, and kinship diversity in Mosuo society 15. What to do with unmarried daughters? Modern solutions to a traditional dilemma in a polyandrous Tibetan society 16. Little princesses and tiny barons: gender, microfinance, and parental priorities in urban Ecuador 17. Surrogate motherhood: rethinking biological models, kinship, and family PART 3: GENDERED SPACE and KNOWLEDGE 18. The fashioning of women 19. Gender, business, and space control: Yoruba market women and power 20. Taming internal weather, together: gendered knowledge flows during maternity under Khmer traditional and folk medicine systems 21. The domestic sphere of women and the public world of men: the strengths and limitations of an anthropological dichotomy 22. From "private" affairs to "public" scandals: the modern woman's challenge to husband's infidelities in Uganda 23. Possessing spirits and healing gods: female suffering and agency in North

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 Faculty Affiliation in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of South Florida, USA.