Anthropology: Showing 1 to 25 of 30 results where the Subjects is Gender Studies sorted by Newest to oldest

Blindness Through the Looking Glass

The Performance of Blindness, Gender, and the Sensory Body

By Gili Hammer
Subjects: Disability Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Anthropology
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Challenges visuality as the dominant mode through which we understand gender, social performance, and visual culture

Formulas for Motherhood in a Chinese Hospital

By Suzanne Gottschang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Anthropology, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Health & Medicine

The first long- term anthropological study of China’s Baby- Friendly Hospital Initiative, closely examining our assumptions about motherhood and childbirth

Our Sisters' Promised Land

Women, Politics, and Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence

By Ayala Emmett
Subjects: Gender Studies, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations

A groundbreaking study of the role of women as political actors—and peacemakers—in the Middle East

The Troubles in Ballybogoin

Memory and Identity in Northern Ireland

By William F. Kelleher
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

A fascinating exploration of how social memory serves to hinder communication and foster disorder in Northern Ireland

Women of the Andes

Patriarchy and Social Change in Two Peruvian Towns

By Susan C. Bourque & Kay Barbara Warren
Subjects: Anthropology, Gender Studies, Latin American Studies, Political Science

Studies women of two Peruvian highland communities and the cultural implications of gender differences

Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk

Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania

By Denise Allen
Subjects: Anthropology, Gender Studies, African Studies, Health & Medicine

An investigation of the consequences resulting from fertility-related development interventions in Tanzania

When Women Have Wings

Feminism and Development in Medellin, Colombia

By Donna F. Murdock
Subjects: Anthropology, Gender Studies, Latin American Studies

A vivid and detailed ethnographic account of the problems of professionalization and feminism in a community center project in one of Medellín, Colombia's most embattled working class districts

Modern Loves

The Anthropology of Romantic Courtship and Companionate Marriage

By Jennifer Sue Hirsch & Holly Wardlow
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, African American Studies, Gender Studies, Latin American Studies, Asian Studies, African Studies

Grounded in recent, cutting edge feminist anthropological theory, these essays discuss how women and men do courtship, intimacy, and marriage around the world

Breaking Ground

Pioneering Women Archaeologists

Edited by Getzel M. Cohen & Martha Sharp Joukowsky
Subjects: Archaeology, Classical Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Anthropology

Biographies of twelve often-overlooked woman archaeologists

Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town

By Elisha Renne
Subjects: Anthropology, African Studies, Gender Studies, Economics, System -- Development

Argues that progress and fertility cannot be expected to follow a universal trajectory

Conceiving Cultures

Reproducing People and Places on Nuakata, Papua New Guinea

By Shelley Mallett
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Makes explicit anthropology's implicit project to understand the self by way of the other

Our Women Are Free

Gender and Ethnicity in the Hindukush

By Wynne R. Maggi
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Gender Studies, Religion

An exploration of the lives of women among the Kalasha, a tiny, vibrant community in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province

Invitations to Love

Literacy, Love Letters, and Social Change in Nepal

By Laura M. Ahearn
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Gender Studies, Education

A discussion of the implications of the emergence of love-letter correspondences for social relations in Nepal

Unconventional Sisterhood

Feminist Catholic Nuns in the Philippines

By Heather Lynn Claussen
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Gender Studies, Religion

An unusual ethnography of Catholic sisters in the Philippines

Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery

Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New Guinea

By Eric Kline Silverman
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Gender Studies

An important ethnographic analysis of motherhood in one Melanesian society

Borders of Being

Citizenship, Fertility, and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific

Edited by Margaret Anne Jolly & Kalpana Rajeswari Ram
Subjects: Anthropology, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Asian Studies, Health & Medicine

Explores the intermingling of women's bodies and nations' boundaries

Staging Philanthropy

Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916

By Jean Helen Quataert
Subjects: History, German Studies, Gender Studies, Anthropology
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916