Because paternal certainty is asymmetrical, males have evolved a number of anti-cuckoldry strategies to deal with the possibility of raising an offspring they unknowingly did not sire. Female Infidelity and Paternal Uncertainty: Evolutionary Perspectives on Male Anti-cuckoldry T…
Beschouwing over de liefde vanuit een historisch, sociaal, psychologisch, literair en filosofisch perspectief
[Publisher-supplied data] Drawing on anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo's fifteen years of field research, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche is the first study to follow shamans' gender identities and performance in a variety of ritua…
[Publisher-supplied data] Drawing on anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo's fifteen years of field research, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche is the first study to follow shamans' gender identities and performance in a variety of ritua…
This work compares transvestism across cultures, in particular it compares transvestites in Britain with the Hijras of India. It considers how emotion, mythology, imagery, and beliefs influence ideas about sex and gender. The author challenges the straightforward binary divide t…
How does culture shape notions of sexuality and gender? Why are transvestites in the West so often seen as deviant or perverse, while they are accepted in other societies? What are the implications for the categories of male and female when consideri ng transvestism? Transvestis…
"Divine love explores the work of Luce Irigaray, one of the most influential and controversial figures in feminist thought. Although Irigaray herself disclaims the term 'feminism', her work stands at the intersection of contemporary debates concerned with culture, gender and rel…
"A major new work by a leading historian and pioneer in women's studies, The Creation of Patriarchy is a radical reconceptualization of Western civilization that makes gender central to its analysis. Gerda Lerner argues that male dominance over women is not "natural" or biologic…
In this fresh view of the history of Western civilization, the author argues that male dominance is not natural or biological (and hence unchangeable), but a product of historical development.
"A major new work by a leading historian and pioneer in women's studies, The Creation of Patriarchy is a radical reconceptualization of Western civilization that makes gender central to its analysis. Gerda Lerner argues that male dominance over women is not "natural" or biologic…
What does it mean to be human? To be human is, in part, to be physically sexed and culturally gendered. Yet not all bodies are clearly male or female. "Bodies in Doubt" traces the changing definitions, perceptions, and medical management of intersex (atypical sex development) in…
"What does it mean to be human? The answer, in part, is to be physically sexed and culturally gendered. Yet not all bodies are clearly male or female. Bodies in Doubt traces the changing definitions, perceptions, and medical management of intersex (atypical sex development) in A…
This work presents a comparison of the links between women's social rights and democratic citizenship in three different citizenship models - republican citizenship in France, liberal citizenship in Britain, and social citizenship in Denmark.
Feminist analysis shows that the prevailing concepts of citizenship often assume a male citizen. How, then, does this affect the agency and participation of women in modern democracies? This insightful book, first published in 2000, presents a systematic comparison of the links …
A collection of 17 essays analyzing social, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape gender systems in the Middle East and North Africa. Essays document the similarities and differences in the gendering relations of power in 12 countries, providing a framework for und…