Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective | Gender Studies

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This fully updated new edition of Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective carefully introduces and responds to changes in anthropological approaches to and perspectives on gender. With two new editors and new authors from the Global South and underrepresented communities it combines theoretically and ethnographically based chapters to examine gender roles and ideology around the world. The books is divided thematically into five parts with the editors opening each section with a succinct introduction to the principal issues. The book retains some of the classic chapters while offering new contributions and extended discussions throughout on methodology. It also has entirely new contributions t…