Description
Book SynopsisA cross-cultural study of gender roles and relationships, Women and Men: Cultural Constructs of Gender, 5/e has a cross-cultural emphasis with coverage of a wide range of ethnographic and historical data on US and global economic development - with a focus on both material conditions and ideological valuations that affect and reflect cultural models of gender.
Table of ContentsPart I The Impact of Material Conditions on Gender Roles
Chapter 1 Prologue
Chapter 2 Egalitarian Foraging Societies
Chapter 3 Pastoral and Horticultural Societies
Chapter 4 Stratified Societies
Chapter 5 Agricultural States
Chapter 6 Industrial Economy: The United States
Chapter 7 Global Economic Development
Part II Ideological Constraints on Gender Constructs
Chapter 8 Gender and the Body
Chapter 9 Gender and Religion
Chapter 10 Gender and Language
Chapter 11 Epilogue
