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Book SynopsisWith contributions from a diverse team of global authors, this cutting-edge Handbook documents the impact of the study of gender and sexuality upon the foundational practices and precepts of anthropology. Providing a survey of the state-of-the-art in the field, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students of anthropology.
Table of Contents1. Introduction to the Cambridge handbook of the anthropology of gender and sexuality Silvia Posocco, Cecilia McCallum and Martin Fotta; Part I. Openings and Orientations: 2. Remixing feminist epistemology and methodology Sameena Mulla and Daná-Ain Davis; 3. Critical ethnography as a collective feminist project Henrike Donner; 4. Kinship and relatedness as vital lens Resto Cruz; 5. Reframing the social, rethinking the body, confronting biologism Victor Sacha Cova and Heather Anne Swanson; Part II. Knowledges and Domains: 6. Gender, sociality and the person Cecilia McCallum; 7. The postmodern moment in gender studies and anthropology Sarah Green and Tuija Pulkkinen; 8. Gender(ed) language and the linguistics of sexuality Stephanie Rudwick; 9. Conceptualising bodies, hierarchy and gendering across cultures Subhadra Mitra Channa; 10. Language, gender & sexuality and performativity William L. Leap; 11. Anthropological engagements with men and masculinities Paul Scheibelhofer and Daniel Monterescu; Part III. Resistances and Intersections: 12. Social and cultural politics of resistance and empowerment Mengia Tschalaer; 13. Re-working black feminist anthropology through transnational scholar-activism and anti-racist solidarity in Africa and its diaspora Riché J. Daniel Barnes; 14. Gender in decolonial indigenous perspectives Olga Ulturgasheva; 15. Anthropologies of reproduction, abortion, and biopolitics Michele Rivkin-Fish; 16. Gender, capitalism, and the Erotics of finance Caroline E. Schuster; 17. Untying poverty's gendered knots past and present Vigdis Broch-Due; Part IV. Desires and Relations: 18. Subjectivities, knowledge and gendered and sexual transitions Paul Boyce and Akshay Khanna; 19. Feminist and queer theories of the non/human & paradoxical possibilities of the slash Logan Natalie O'Laughlin; 20. Blood, gender and politics in indigenous View Luisa Elvira Belaunde and Cecilia McCallum; 21. 'At home' in Botox, feminism and ethics Jeanette Edwards; Part V. Recursivities and Futures: 22. Ontological sex-genders E. J. Gonzalez-Polledo; 23. Futures Emilia Sanabria.
