Changing genders in intercultural perspectives
著者
書誌事項
Changing genders in intercultural perspectives
（Studia anthropologica, 5）
Leuven University Press, 2002
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注記
Preface in Flemish and English
Includes bibliographical references
収録内容
- Introduction : indeterminate onologies / Barbara Saunders
- Guardians of distinctiveness / Maurits Eycken
- Family disputes involving Muslim women in contemporary Belgium : Moroccan women between Islamic family law and women's rights / Marie-Claire Foblets
- Sewing up the globe : information & communication technologies and re/materialised gender-power relations / Marianne I. Franklin
- Marrying wealth, marrying money : repositioning Igbo women and men / Patrick Iroegbu
- Dynamics of sex, gender and culture : the Native American berdache or 'two-spirit people' in discourse and context / Chia Longman
- Engendering Blackfoot histories / Lea Zuyderhoudt
- Planting seeds, making cheese, moulding faces, feeding children -- men making babies? the virgin-birth controversy revisited / G. Bambi Ceuppens
- Afterword : discussing genders in times of change / Massimiliano Carocci
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In anthropology, the catch-all concepts of gender, sex, male, female catch both too much and too little. In contrast, this collection explores the shifting differences within them, as well as the mutable differences between. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, these essays develop contextual and strategic analyses of the way sex-gender constellations can be configured as political identities, as a resource, or in response to unforeseen contingencies.
These constellations of sex-gender can be used instrumentally by colonial, neo-colonial or patriarchal regimes, by global communications networks, and by local moralities; they can govern blinkered research strategies (gender 'neutrality'; 'objective' discourse); they can be ambivalent mediators (in bride-wealth negotiations; as a strategy for immigrant success); or they may constitute a subversive counterstrategy (as with the appropriation of the 'two-spirit' notion).
These examples show that there is nothing useful to be said about gender, sex, male, female outside the concrete specificity of the relations in which they are defined, produced and reproduced. Drawing on recent theorising in the fields of anthropology and gender studies this collection addresses a unique and vitally challenging set of issues exploring both new kinds of gender configurations as well as their changing circumstances.
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