Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations, Second Edition - Softcover

Serena Nanda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 147861126X ISBN 13: 9781478611264

Publisher: Waveland Press, Inc., 2014

Synopsis

Anthropologist Serena Nanda has heralded the importance of understanding human similarities and differences throughout her writing and teaching career. This was especially evidenced in her groundbreaking work, Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations, a masterful, far-reaching examination of the relationships between sex, gender, and sexuality and how they are culturally constructed.

The latest edition of Gender Diversity incorporates new material on hijras in Bangladesh, three gender alternatives in Indonesia, and global changes related to migration, communication, and health. Concept-reinforcing review questions have also been added to each chapter. Throughout, rich ethnographic examples representing nine cultures illuminate the need to analyze sex/gender roles and identities on the basis of broad cultural patterns and distinct cultural features, including social class, ethnicity, age, religion, urban or rural residence, and exposure to Western cultures.

Gender Diversity, 2/E encourages readers to think in new ways about what they consider natural, normal, or morally right. As a concise supplement with multidisciplinary appeal, the enhanced edition is sure to energize the undergraduate classroom. Includes glossary and selected films list.

Also by Serena Nanda and available from Waveland Press: Love and Marriage: Cultural Diversity in a Changing World (ISBN 9781478637554).

Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Burton, Culture and the Human Body: An Anthropological Perspective (ISBN 9781577661801); Mascia-Lees, Gender and Difference in a Globalizing World: Twenty-First-Century Anthropology (ISBN 9781577665984); and Mascia-Lees-Black, Gender and Anthropology, 2E (ISBN 9781478634164).

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Review:

“This handy text provides an excellent introduction to gender and sexuality in a cross-cultural context. I use it in two courses.” Anthony Shay, Pomona College

“I love how focused and complete this new edition is. The addition of Indonesia is great. Overall, great updates.” Jessica Bodoh-Creed, California State University, Los Angeles

“The book enhances my class significantly and never fails to engage the students.” Matthew Kennedy, City College of San Francisco

About this edition

• Publisher: Waveland Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 147861126X
• ISBN 13: 9781478611264
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 147