Women and Men - Cultural Constructs of Gender

This book is a cross-cultural study of gender roles and relationships that focuses on both economic and material conditions as well as the ideological valuations that affect and reflect cultural models of gender.

List of contents

Part I The Impact of Material Conditions on Gender Roles
Chapter 1 Prologue
Chapter 2 Egalitarian Foraging Societies
Chapter 3 Pastoral and Horticultural Societies
Chapter 4 Stratified Societies
Chapter 5 Agricultural States
Chapter 6 Industrial Economy: The United States
Chapter 7 Global Economic Development

Part II Ideological Constraints on Gender Constructs
Chapter 8 Gender and the Body
Chapter 9 Gender and Religion
Chapter 10 Gender and Language
Chapter 11 Epilogue

About the author

By Nancy Bonvillain

Summary

This book is a cross-cultural study of gender roles and relationships that focuses on both economic and material conditions as well as the ideological valuations that affect and reflect cultural models of gender.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Bonvillain, Bonvillain Nancy
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781538114827
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-1482-7
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Archaeology / Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies, gender groups