Gendered Lives: Global Issues

by Nadine T. Fernandez and Katie Nelson Eds.

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Gendered Lives takes a regional approach to examine gender issues from an anthropological perspective with a focus on globalization and intersectionality. Chapters present contributors' ethnographic research, contextualizing their findings within four geographic regions: Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, and the Global North.

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Subjects
Social Sciences, Gender Studies
Licence
CC BY 4.0, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Licensing
  7. Contributors
  8. Preface
  9. 1: Introduction
  10. 1.1: Key Concepts
  11. 1.2: Key Perspectives
  12. 2: South Asia
  13. 2.1: South Asia - Introducing the Region
  14. 2.2: Controlling National Borders by Controlling Reproduction- Gender, Nationalism, and Nepal’s Citizenship Laws
  15. 2.3: Understanding Caste and Kinship within Hijras, a “Third” Gender Community in India
  16. 2.4: The “City” and “The Easy Life”- Work and Gender among Sherpa in Nepal
  17. 3: Latin America
  18. 3.1: Latin America- Introducing the Region
  19. 3.2: Being a Good Mexican Man by Embracing “Erectile Dysfunction”
  20. 3.3: Intersectionality and Normative Masculinity in Northeast Brazil
  21. 3.4: Mexico’s Antipoverty Program Oportunidades and the Shifting Dynamics of Citizenship for Ñuu Savi (Mixtec) Village Women
  22. 3.5: Q’eqchi’-Maya Women- Memory, Markets, and Multilevel Marketing in Guatemala
  23. 4: The Caribbean
  24. 4.1: The Caribbean - Introducing the Region
  25. 4.2: Quinceañeras - Girls’ Coming-of-Age Parties in Contemporary Havana, Cuba
  26. 4.3: Jamaican Realities of Masculinities and Sexualities- Where Have We Come Since Michel Foucault?
  27. 5: The Global North (North America and Europe)
  28. 5.1: The Global North - Introducing the Region
  29. 5.2: Mothers Acting Up Online
  30. 5.3: Male Sex Work in Canada- Intersections of Gender and Sexuality
  31. 5.4: Intersectionality and Muslim Women in Belgium
  32. 5.5: Fatherhood and Family Relations in Transnational Migration from Mezcala, Mexico
  33. Back Matter
  34. Index
  35. Glossary
  36. Index
  37. Detailed Licensing