Sex and gender hierarchies /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1993.
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| Series: | Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology ;
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / Barbara Diane Miller
- A note on the discussions at Mijas / Elizabeth Colson
- Part I. Overview and Theoretical Perspectives: 1. The anthropology of sex and gender hierarchies / Barbara Diane Miller
- 2. Sex differences and gender hierarchies among primates: an evolutionary perspective / Adrienne Zihlman
- 3. The evolution of gender hierarchies: a trial formulation / Marvin Harris
- Part II. Sex and Gender Hierarchies from Conception to Death: 4. Blood: cultural effectiveness of biological conditions / Brigitta Hauser-Schaublin
- 5. Reproduction and gender hierarchy: amniocentesis in America / Rayna Rapp
- 6. Variations in male-female dominance and offspring care in nonhuman primates / Patricia C. Wright
- 7. Indexing gender / Elinor Ochs
- 8. The politics of polygyny in Mende education and child fosterage transactions / Caroline Bledsoe
- 9. Sexual repression, social control, and gender hierarchy in Sambia culture / Gilbert Herdt
- 10. Primatological perspectives on gender hierarchies / Joan B. Silk
- 11. Conjugal power in Tokugawa Japanese families: a matter of life and death G. William Skinner
- Part III. Complexity and Change in Gender Hierarchies: 12. Skeletal evidence for sex roles and gender hierarchies in prehistory / Mark Nathan Cohen and Sharon Bennett
- 13. Gender hierarchy and the Queens of Silla / Sarah M. Nelson
- 14. Gender hierarchy in Burma: cultural, social and psychological dimensions / Melford E. Spiro
- 15. Turning the tables? Male strippers and the gender hierarchy in America / Maxine O. Margolis and Marigene Arnold
- 16. Women in Samoan history: a further critique of Derek Freeman / Eleanor Leacock
- 17. Sanskritization as female oppression in India / Gerald D. Berreman
- Index.