The Gender Culture and Power Reader

About this book

The Gender Culture and Power Reader explores different approaches to the study and conceptualization of gender the value and limitations of gender as an analytic category and the theoretical insights about gender produced by ethnographic research into the everyday lives labors loves and livelihoods of people throughout the world. Why does gender "matter"? How are dominant ideas and practices of gender perceived produced experienced and contested in different societies? How does ethnographic research provide access to these stories perspectives and experiences? What is the relationship between evidence and theory? The Gender Culture and Power Reader addresses these questions and more. Expertly edited by Dorothy L. Hodgson this diverse reader includes both classical debates and relevant contemporary topics like gender-based violence and human rights.