Making gender : the politics and erotics of culture / Sherry B. Ortner.
Making gender : the politics and erotics of culture / Sherry B. Ortner.
Making gender : the politics and erotics of culture / Sherry B. Ortner.
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Boston : Beacon Press, c1996.
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N305.3/93
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English
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Physical content
x, 262 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Making Gender: Toward a Feminist, Minority, Postcolonial, Subaltern, etc., Theory of Practice --2. Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture? -- 3. The Virgin and the State -- 4. Rank and Gender -- 5. The Problem of "Women" as an Analytic Category -- 6. Gender Hegemonies -- 7. So, Is Female to Ma...
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Boston : Beacon Press, c1996.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
c1996.
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Summary
Making Gender both critiques and builds upon recent anthropological theory. Scholars such as Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, and Marshall Sahlins have explored the dialectic between how we shape culture and how culture shapes us in a framework known as "practice theory." Ortner argues that these scholars omit crucial questions raised elsewhere, i...
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Making gender : the politics and erotics of culture / Sherry B. Ortner.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-254) and index.
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c1996.
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N305.3/93
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74VvwgGmRzBA
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0807046329 (cloth)
9780807046333 (pbk.)
0807046337 (pbk.)
9780807046326 (cloth)
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305.3
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991004351619702626
