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Women and Men: Cultural Constructs of Gender 3/e
Nancy Bonvillain
Published July 2000 by Prentice Hall
Copyright 2001, 344 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0-13-025973-X
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Preface
Summary

A cross-cultural study of gender roles and relationships, this book presents a synthesis of a wide range of ethnographic and historical data concerning the roles of women and men in wide range of different kinds of societies--with a focus on both material conditions and ideological valuations that affect and reflect cultural models of gender. KEY TOPICS: First looks at the impact of material conditions on gender roles: Foragers; Farmers; Agricultural States; Industrial Economy: The United States; and Women and Global Economic Development. Then explores ideological constraints on gender constructs: Gender and the Body; Gender and Religion; Gender and Language. MARKET: For anyone interested in gender roles from an anthropological, sociological, and psychological perspective.

Features

  • NEW - A chapter on “Global Economic Development” (Ch. 7)—Discusses the positive and negative effects of economic development programs on women's and men's economic, social, and political roles.

    • Allows students to see how the global economy affects the roles of both men and women. Ex.___

  • NEW - A revised/combined chapter on gender and language (Ch.  10)—Combines data on gender and language from English and from several non-Indo-European languages spoken in other parts of the world.

    • Integrates the information about language and gender so that students can see the relationship between the two. Ex.___

  • NEW - New research is integrated into many discussions, and updated statistics are included, especially on income and employment in the U.S.

    • Provides students with the most current research and data. Ex.___

  • Gender roles in various types of societies—From bands to industrial states.

    • Allows students to see how roles change depending on the type of society being described. Ex.___

  • An abundance of cross-cultural examples.

    • Compares and contrasts gender roles in a variety of societies. Ex.___

  • An analysis of the historical development of industrialization in the United States—And its use of gender inequalities in pre-existing societies.

    • Details the impact of industrialization on gender inequalities in pre-existing societies. Ex.___

  • A discussion on the function of religious beliefs and practices—In justifying and reinforcing gender roles and relations.

    • Shows how religious beliefs can reinforce gender roles and relations within various types of societies. Ex.___
Table of Contents

I. THE IMPACT OF MATERIAL CONDITIONS ON GENDER ROLES.

 1. Prologue.

 2. Egalitarian Foraging Societies.

 3. Pastoral and Horticultural Societies.

 4. Stratified Economics

 5. Agricultural States

 6. Industrial Economy: The United States.

 7. Global Economic Development.

II. IDEOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON GENDER CONSTRUCTS.

 8. Gender and the Body.

 9. Gender and Religion.

10. Gender and Language.

11. Epilogue.

Glossary.

Index.



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