Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities (eBook, PDF)

An Anthropological Reader
Redaktion: Robertson, Jennifer

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates the centrality of sex, gender, and sexuality to theories of human behaviors and practices. * * Moves beyond other "lesbian and gay studies" readers by presenting a broader view of the significance of studying same-sex cultures and sexualities across cultures. * Offers readings from all four subfields of anthropology: cultural, biological, linguistic, and archaeological (along with historical and applied anthropology). * Includes discussion of biotechnology and bioethics, health and illness, language, ethnicity, identity, politics, post-colonialism, kinship, development, and policymaking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470776766
• Artikelnr.: 38203100

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Robertson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. She has published many articles and book chapters (in several languages) on a wide spectrum of subjects and is the author of Native and Newcomer: Making and Unmaking a Japanese City (1991) and Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan (2001 [1998]; Japanese translation 2000). The author's primary area specialty is Japan however she has also worked in Sri Lanka and is presently working in Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Sexualizing anthropology's fields (JenniferRobertson).

Part 1: Anthropology's Sexual Fields.

1. "Anthropology rediscovers sexuality: A theoreticalcomment." (Carole Vance).

2. "Biological determinism and homosexuality."(Bonnie Spanier).

3. "Feminisms, queer theories, and the archaeologicalstudy of past sexualities." (Barbara Voss).

4. "No." (Don Kulick).

5. "Resources for lesbian ethnographic research in thelavender archives." (Alisa Klinger).

Part 2: Problems and Propositions.

6. "Erotic anthropology: 'ritualizedhomosexuality' in Melanesia and beyond." (DeborahElliston).

7. "Gender, genetics, and generation: reformulatingbiology in lesbian kinship." (Corinne Hayden).

8. "Transsexualism: reflections on the persistence ofgender and the mutability of sex." (JudithShapiro).

9. "Problems encountered in writing the history ofsexuality: Sources, theory and interpretation." (EstelleB. Freedman and John D'Emilio).

Part 3: Ethics, Erotics and Exercises .

10. "Choosing the sexual orientation of children."(Edward Stein).

11. "Yoshiya Nobuko: Out and outspoken in practice andprose." (Jennifer Robertson).

12. "Outing as performance/outing as resistance: a queerreading of Austrian (homo)sexualities." (MattiBunzl).

13. "Tombois in West Sumatra: constructing masculinity anderotic desire." (Evelyn Blackwood).

14. "Freeing South Africa: the 'modernization'of male-male sexuality in Soweto." (DonaldDonham).

15. "Gay organizations, NGOs, and the globalization ofsexual identity: the case of Bolivia." (TimothyWright).

Rezensionen

"It is volumes like this one that allow us to see all sortsof new connections and possibilities. The vibrant thematiccoherence of these articles is intellectually exciting, and one cangenuinely say that, in this volume, the whole is far greater thanthe sum of its parts. It is a particular strength that the articlescome from across the anthropological subfields."

Margaret Conkey, University of California, Berkeley

"An exquisite collection! The ethnographic reach andtheoretical sophistication of this reader ensure that it isdestined to become a classic reference and an indispensable toolfor teaching. In addition to its contributions to the study ofsame-sex cultures, it boldly articulates anthropology'sspecial claims and unique role in the study of humansexualities."

Gayle Rubin, University of Michigan

"An exceptionally coherent collection, with uniformlystrong contributions. Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities is alucid demonstration of the ways that research on same-sexsexualities has intervened in and redefined core problems anddebates in anthropology and history."

Mary Hancock, University of California, Santa Barbara