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| Preface | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Biology, Gender, and Human Evolution | |
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| Animal Models and Gender | |
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| The Role of Women in Human Evolution | |
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| Gender and War: Are Women Tough Enough for Military Combat? | |
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| Lifeboat Ethics: Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil | |
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| The Cultural Nexus of Aka Father-Infant Bonding | |
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| Gender and Prehistory | |
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| The Archaeology of Gender Today: New Vistas, New Challenges | |
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| The Fashioning of Women | |
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| Warriors and Rulers: Royal Women of the Classic Maya | |
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| Domestic Worlds and Public Worlds | |
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| The Domestic Sphere of Women and the Public World of Men: The Strengths and Limitations of an Anthropological Dichotomy | |
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| "It's a Pleasure to Cook for Him": Food, Mealtimes, and Gender in Some South Wales Households | |
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| Fatherhood and the Mediating Role of Women | |
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| Cities of Women | |
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| Equality and Inequality: The Sexual Division of Labor and Gender Stratification | |
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| Woman the Hunter: The Agta | |
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| Gender, Horticulture, and the Division of Labor on Vanatinai | |
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| Do Tents and Herds Still Matter? Pastoral Nomadism and Gender among the Tuareg in Niger and Mali | |
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| Women and Work in a Postrevolutionary Society: Urban Cooperatives and the Informal Economy in Nicaragua | |
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| The Cultural Construction of Gender and Personhood | |
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| My Encounter with Machismo in Spain | |
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| Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea | |
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| The Named and the Nameless: Gender and Person in Chinese Society | |
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| Gender and the Stories Pittsburgh Police Officers Tell about Using Physical Force | |
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| The Making and Unmaking of Persons: Gender and Body in Northeast India | |
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| Culture, Sexuality, and the Body | |
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| Is There a Muslim Sexuality? Changing Constructions of Sexuality in Egyptian Bedouin Weddings | |
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| From Pollution to Love Magic: The New Anthropology of Menstruation | |
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| Hijras: An "Alternative" Sex/Gender in India | |
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| Measuring Up to Barbie: Ideals of the Feminine Body in Popular Culture | |
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| Gender, Property, and the State | |
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| Thinking about Women and the Origin of the State | |
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| Dowry, Bride-Burning, and Female Power in India | |
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| Encountering the State: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women's Political Experience | |
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| Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunch-Box as Ideological State Apparatus | |
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| Gender, Household, and Kinship | |
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| Beyond the "Pattern of Heaven": Gender, Kinship and the Family in China | |
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| Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Labyrinth of Working and Parenting in a Poor Community | |
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| Matrifocality, Power, and Gender Relations in Jamaica | |
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| The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship | |
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| Gender, Ritual, and Religion | |
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| Spirit Possession and Gender Complementarity: Zar in Rural Northern Sudan | |
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| "Tradition" and Threat: Women's Obscenity in Giriama Funerary Rituals | |
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| Shamans, Bodies, and Sex: Misreading a Korean Ritual | |
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| Women, Religion, and Modernization: Tradition and Transformation among Elderly Jews in Israel | |
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| Gender, Politics, and Reproduction | |
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| Gender and Ritual: Giving Birth the American Way | |
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| Political Demography: The Banning of Abortion in Ceausescu's Romania | |
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| Surrogate Motherhood: Rethinking Biological Models, Kinship, and Family | |
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| Female Genital Cutting: Culture and Controversy | |
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| Culture Contact, Development, and the Global Economy | |
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| The Impact of Development on Women: The Interplay of Material Conditions and Gender Ideology | |
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| Doing Their Homework: The Dilemma of Planning Women's Garden Programs in Bangladesh | |
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| Factory as Home and Family: Female Workers in the Moroccan Garment Industry | |
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| Sexuality and Discipline among Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong | |
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| "Wild Pigs and Dog Men": Rape and Domestic Violence as "Women's Issues" in Papua New Guinea | |
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