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Zusatztext "Draws attention to the intersections of privilege and opportunity in Gay life! themes which are usually overlooked...Speaks directly to interests in sexuality! race and class position which are now popular in Lesbian and Gay male studies courses." -- The Washington Blade"An impressive collection of essays...All of the essays are! in fact! fantastically provocative and they provide an insightful corrective to the excessive textualization of some postmodern analytics." -- NWSA Journal"Examining societies rather than literature! this crosscultural anthology is remarkably strong on class and historical analysis...The Gender/Sexuality Reader is the definitive counterblow to claims that gender theory is important only to queers! feminists! and shrinks." -- Lesbian Review of Books Informationen zum Autor Roger Lancaster teaches at George Mason University and is author of Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua. Micaela di Leonardo teaches in the Anthropology and Women's Studies departments at the University of California, Berkeley and is the author of The Varieties of Ethnic Experience. Klappentext A sophisticated survey of the best recent work on bodies and desires across cultures and through time, this collection of essays shows how gender, sexuality, and power are historically connected and practically intertwined. Contributors include Susan Bordo, Judith Butler, Jane Collier, John D'Emilio, Michelle Rosaldo, and others. 28 illustrations. Zusammenfassung Presents a survey, which contextualizes gender and sexuality in a matrix of varied racial formations, nationalisms, colonialisms, imperialisms and movements for social change. EMBODIMENTS OF HISTORY: LOCAL MEANINGS, GLOBAL ECONOMIES Part One: Moving Borders: Genders, Sexualities, Histories "An introduction to the cultural" "history of gender/sexuality: body politics at the" "convergence of colonialism, race, and class" 1. Ann Laura Stoler -- Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender, Race, and Morality in Colonial Asia 2. Siobhan Somerville -- Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body 3. Micaela di Leonardo -- White Lies, Black Myths: Rape, Race and the Black "Underclass" Part Two: Modes of Reproduction: Kinship, Parenthood, States Is the family universal? Are mothers invariably nurturing? How kinship, technology, and politics construct pregnancy, parenting, and reproduction 4. Jane Collier, Michelle Z. Rosaldo, Sylvia Yanagisako-- Is There a Family? New Anthropological Views 5. Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Lifeboat Ethics: Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil 6. Amartya Sen -- Population: Delusion and Reality 7. Geraldine Heng and Janadas Devan -- State Fatherhood: The Politics of Nationalism, Sexuality and Race in Singapore 8. Susan Gal -- Gender in the Post-Socialist Transition: The Abortion Debate in Hungary 9. Rosalind Pollack Petchesky -- Fetal Images: The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction Part Three: The Social Construction of Identities: Comparative Sexualities; Sexual identities in the context of political economy, kinship systems, family structures, and historical change 10. Ellen Ross and Rayna Rapp -- Sex and Society: A Research Note from Social History and Anthropology 11. John D'Emilio -- Capitalism and Gay Identity 12. David F. Greenberg -- Transformations of Homosexuality-Based Classifications 13. Matthew C. Gutmann -- Seed of the Nation: Men's Sex and Potency in Mexico; MAKING MARKS AND DRAWING BOUNDARIES: CORPOREAL PRACTICES Part Four: Bodies of Knowledge and the Politics of Representation -- How representations of various sorts--scientific, medical and academic--are affected by, and in turn affect, body politics--and what this implies for how we live 14. Evelyn Fox Keller -- Secrets of God, Nature, and Life 15. Th...
