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Changing Ones

Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America

Will Roscoe Palgrave Macmillan

Changing Ones reveals how queer people in Native societies have been acknowledged, honored, and attributed with unique skills. Roscoe argues that these...

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Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	Gendered Modernities Ethnographic Perspectives Edited by Dorothy L. Hodgson Palgrave Macmillan Based on long-term ethnographic research in China, Thailand, Nigeria, Chile, and other areas, the contributors explore the intersection of "gender" and...

Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	Anthropology and the United States Military Coming of Age in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Pamela R. Frese and Margaret C. Harrell Palgrave Macmillan Anthropology and the United States Military is a fascinating edited collection of ethnographic research that seeks to provide visions of and for US military...

Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	Made in India Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/national Projects Comparative Feminist Studies Suparna Bhaskaran Palgrave Macmillan Made In India explores the making of "queer" and "heterosexual" consciousness and identities in light of economic privatization, global condom enterprises,...

Hardcover : $116.00 Buy	Women and Migration Anthropological Perspectives Edited by Barbara Meier and Jacqueline Knörr Palgrave Macmillan All contributions to this book to this volume describe women as social actors within specific migration processes and point out women's creativity in shaping...

Trade Paperback : $37.00 Buy	Gender's Place Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America Edited by Rosario Montoya, Lessie Jo Frazier and Janise Hurtig Palgrave Macmillan Gender's Place integrates key theoretical issues and rich ethnographic cases in the feminist anthropology of Latin America around the concept of "desalambrar"...

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Why Men Die First

How to Lengthen Your Lifespan

Marianne J. Legato Palgrave Macmillan

It is a universal fact that men die before women. But the causes of this have long remained unexplored. Why Men Die First examines the reasons that men are...

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Trade Paperback : $35.95 Buy	Women, Violence and Tradition Taking FGM and other practices to a secular state Edited by Tamsin Bradley Zed Books Is the practice of FGM (female genital mutilation) on the rise in the UK and US? Why? What happens to religious and cultural traditions when they are taken...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	Housewives of Japan An Ethnography of Real Lives and Consumerized Domesticity Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni Palgrave Macmillan Anthropological study of the social and cultural meanings of being a housewife and a woman in post-bubble Japan.

Trade Paperback : $36.95 Buy	Young Men and Masculinities Global Cultures and Intimate Lives Global Masculinities from Zed Books Victor J. Seidler Zed Books The lives of young men in a globalised world are influenced by the mass circulation of images of men's bodies, desires and sexualities, and the cultural...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Geek Chic Smart Women in Popular Culture Edited by Sherrie A. Inness Palgrave Macmillan Using popular culture as a fertile environment for challenging the stereotype that the most brilliant geeks or nerds must be men, the essays in this book...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Gender, Catholicism, and Morality in Brazil Virtuous Husbands, Powerful Wives Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Maya Mayblin Palgrave Macmillan Through the ethnography of a Catholic community in Northeast Brazil, Maya Mayblin offers a vivid and provocative rethink of gendered portrayals of Catholic...

Trade Paperback : $29.00 Buy	Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives Third Edition Anthropology, Culture and Society Thomas Hylland Eriksen Pluto Press In Ethnicity and Nationalism, Thomas Hylland Eriksen demonstrates that far from being an immutable property of groups, ethnicity is a dynamic and shifting...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Masculinities in Transition Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences Victoria Robinson and Jenny Hockey Palgrave Macmillan Contributing to feminist approaches to masculinities, this book examines men's contextual experiences of masculine identity. Drawing on new data which compares...

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China Gender Relations, HIV/AIDS, and Nationalism Tiantian Zheng Palgrave Macmillan Based on three years of extensive fieldwork, this ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural...

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Boy-Wives and Female-Husbands

Studies in African-American Homosexualities

Will Roscoe and Stephen O. Murray Palgrave Macmillan

Claims concerning the presence and status of homosexuality in historic African cultures have become central points of contention in debates among contemporary...

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Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness Katherine Mezur Palgrave Macmillan This book is a feminist reading of the history of gender performance and construction of the female role players, onnagata, of the Kabuki theater. It is not...

Trade Paperback : $34.00 Buy	On the Game Women and Sex Work Anthropology, Culture and Society Sophie Day Pluto Press Day explores how individual sex workers live, in public and in private.

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Shamans, Spirituality, and Cultural Revitalization Explorations in Siberia and Beyond Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer Palgrave Macmillan Many voices clamor to be heard in debates about whether shamans cure, and whether shamanic spirituality is worth continuing or recovering in the 21rst century....

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Conflict and Counterpoint in Lesbian, Gay, and Feminist Studies Jacqueline Foertsch Palgrave Macmillan Interrogating a broad array of lesbian, gay, and feminist theories, this book considers instances of unnecessarily divisive turf-battling, yet focuses...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton Elena Levy-Navarro Palgrave Macmillan The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity offers the first sustained examination of fatness in the early modern period. As Levy-Navarro notes, bodily...

Trade Paperback : $33.00 Buy	Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia Comparative Feminist Studies Edited by Saskia E. Wieringa, Evelyn Blackwood, and Abha Bhaiya Palgrave Macmillan Winner of the 2007 Ruth Benedict Award! A unique collection of writings by both academic and activist scholars on women’s same-sex sexualities and female...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Gender Epistemologies and Eurasian Borderlands Comparative Feminist Studies Madina Tlostanova Palgrave Macmillan In an important contribution to postcolonial, gender, and Eurasian ethnic studies, Madina Tlostanova examines Central Asia and the Caucasus to trace the...

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Gendered Citizenships

Transnational Perspectives on Knowledge Production, Political Activism, and Culture

Comparative Feminist Studies

Edited by Kia Lilly Caldwell, Kathleen Coll, Tracy Fisher, Renya K. Ramirez, and Lok Siu Palgrave Macmillan

This wide-ranging anthology examines the gendered dimensions of citizenship experiences and uses them as a point of departure for rethinking contemporary...

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