Kinship and Gender: An Introduction
Kinship and Gender: An Introduction
Editor/Author
Stone, Linda
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Westview Press
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$25.99

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ISBN: 978-0-81-334861-2
Category: Social Sciences - Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Image Count:
54
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Linda Stone offers a lively introduction to and working knowledge of kinship, illuminating the malleable nature of gender roles around the world and over time.
Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- 1 Gender, Reproduction, and Kinship
- Enacting and Embodying Gender
- Gender and Reproduction
- What Is Kinship?
- The Kinship Code
- Key Concepts
- Kinship Theory
- Kinship and Gender
- Discussion Questions
- Suggested Further Reading
- Suggested Classroom Media
- Websites
- References
- 2 The Evolution of Kinship and Gender
- Kin Recognition
- Case 1: Deaths in the Families of Chimps
- Kin Selection
- Primate Kinship
- Reproduction, Aggression, and Dominance
- The Human Transition
- The Incest Taboo
- Nature, Culture, and Human Kinship
- Discussion Questions
- Suggested Further Reading
- Suggested Classroom Media
- Websites
- References
- 3 The Power of Patrilines
- Lineage and Clan
- Patrilocality
- Lineal Masculinity
- Case 2: The Nuer
- Case 3: Nepalese Brahmans
- Patrilineal Contrasts
- Discussion Questions
- Suggested Further Reading
- Suggested Classroom Media
- Websites
- References
- 4 Through the Mother
- The Matrilineal Puzzle
- Case 4: The Navajo
- Case 5: The Nayar and the Mosuo
- The Matrifocal Family
- Matrilineal Contrasts
- Discussion Questions
- Suggested Further Reading
- Suggested Classroom Media
- Websites
- References
- 5 Double, Bilateral, and Cognatic Descent
- Double Descent
- Case 6: The Beng
- Bilateral Societies
- Cognatic Descent
- Case 7: The Kwaio
- Case 8: The Huli
- Descent, Residence, and Female Pollution
- Double and Cognatic Concerns
- Discussion Questions
- Suggested Further Reading
- Suggested Classroom Media
- Websites
- References
- 6 Marriage
- Monogamy, Polygyny, and Polyandry
- Case 9: Nyinba Polyandry
- Marriage and Alliance
- Exogamy and Cross-Cousin Marriage
- Exogamy and Exchange: Manipulating Women?
- Endogamy
- Marriage and Fertility
- Discussion Questions
- Suggested Classroom Media
- Websites
- References
- 7 A History of Euro-American Kinship and Gender
- Dowry and the Double Standard
- From the Middle Ages to Modern Times
- The Rise of the Christian Church
- The North American Experience
- Case 10: Breadwinning Women
- Discussion Questions
- Suggested Further Reading
- Suggested Classroom Media
- Website
- References
- 8 Kinship, Gender, and Contemporary Social Issues
- Alternative Families, Alternative Sexualities
- Case 11: New and Novel Families in the United States
- Case 12: Polygyny in the United States
- Violence Against Women
- Case 13: Honor Killings
- Discussion Questions
- Suggested Further Reading
- Suggested Classroom Media
- Websites
- References
- 9 Kinship, Gender, and the New Reproductive Technologies
- The New Reproductive Technologies
- Case 14: New Reproductive Technologies in Israel
- Social, Legal, and Moral Implications
- Kinship and Gender
- Discussion Questions
- Suggested Further Reading
- Suggested Classroom Media
- Websites
- References
- 10 The Globalization of Kinship
- Kinship, Urbanization, and Transnational Migration
- Kinship and Transnational Adoption
- Case 15: Child Circulation in Peru
- Continuities
- Discussion Questions
- Suggested Further Reading
- Suggested Classroom Media
- Websites
- References
- Appendix: Kinship Terminology
- Glossary