Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of CultureIn this collection of new and previously published essays, Sherry Ortner draws on her more than two decades of work in feminist anthropology to offer a major reconsideration of culture and gender. Making Gender is rich in theoretical insights and ethnographic examples, offering a stimulating synthesis of the field by one of its founders and foremost theorists. |
Contents
Making Gender Toward a Feminist Minority Postcolonial Subaltern etc Theory of Practice | 1 |
Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture? | 21 |
The Virgin and the State | 43 |
Rank and Gender | 59 |
The Problem of Women as an Analytic Category | 116 |
Gender Hegemonies | 139 |
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