Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective

by Carolyn F. Sargent and Caroline B. Brettell

Book Overview

Aims to provide broad cross-cultural coverage to encourage comparative analysis of the theme of the anthropology of gender. Research on women's lives is complemented by articles on male gender roles.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0205247288
• ISBN13: 9780205247288
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Great collection of through-provoking articles on gender and anthropology

If you have no interest whatsoever in the vast diversity of human culture and the controversial roles of gender in all societies past and present then yes, this will be a boring book for you. People giving this book a bad rating are just not interested in the topic. I am an anthropology student and find it all fascinating, so this book to me is a great resource. Every article had me reconsidering core values and ideals as well as stereotypes that I grew up accepting. The articles are fairly easy for the average person to read and are short enough to read in one sitting.