A generation of feminist research has explored the extent to which the roles--and expectations--of women and men vary across cultures. In this volume, leading anthropologists reflect on the evidence and theories, broadening the conventional field of comparison to include female/male relationships among nonhuman primates and introducing fresh case studies that range from lemurs to hominids, from Japanese peasants to male strippers in Florida, from skeletal remains of a Korean queen to mother/child conversations in Samoa. They document the rich and often surprising diversity in sex and gender hierarchies among both human and nonhuman primates.
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"Should you make room in your financial and time budgets to buy and read yet another volume of expanded, revised conference papers? In the case of Sex and Gender Hierarchies, the answer is a resounding yes if your research or teaching interests include sex differences and gender relationships in primates. This collection of 17 chapters drawn from the four subfields of anthropology, accomplishes what many such volumes only promise to do. It is an impressive analysis of a specific issue--systematic relationships of inequality based on sex and gender--from the perspectives of first-rate biological and social/cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, and linguists." Barbara J. King, International Journal of Primatology
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A generation of feminist research has explored the extent to which the roles of women and men vary across cultures. This volume broadens the conventional field of comparison to document diversity in sex and gender hierarchies among human and nonhuman primates.
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The fact of being born "female" or "male" in all human and non-human primate societies carries with it a specific behavioral assignment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
total social reproduction, human gender hierarchies, female strip show, spousal age difference, male navel, agnatic blood, conjugal power, monogamous primates, male strip shows, canine size, paternal certainty, female strippers, male parental care, assigning sex, joint family systems, simplified register, skeletal data, dimorphic species, male care, sexual dimorphism, skeletal populations, sexual antagonism, offspring care, dangerous female, skeletal analysis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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total social reproduction, human gender hierarchies, female strip show, spousal age difference, male navel, agnatic blood, conjugal power, monogamous primates, male strip shows, canine size, paternal certainty, female strippers, male parental care, assigning sex, joint family systems, simplified register, skeletal data, dimorphic species, male care, sexual dimorphism, skeletal populations, sexual antagonism, offspring care, dangerous female, skeletal analysis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Guinea, Cambridge University Press, Academic Press, University of Chicago Press, University of California Press, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Western Samoa, Stanford University Press, United States, Harvard University Press, New Haven, Journal of Human Evolution, Sierra Leone, Eleanor Leacock, West African, Annual Review of Anthropology, Columbia University Press, South American, Yale University Press, American Anthropological Association, Folia Primatologica, Harriet Whitehead New!
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