Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality

By:

Ortner, S.B. and Whitehead, H

Contributor(s):

Whitehead, Harriet

Material type:

TextPublication details: New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.Description: 435pISBN:

9780521283755

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.38026655 ORT/S

Contents:

Introduction : Accounting for sexual meanings / Sherry B. Ortner and Harriet Whitehead The gender revolution and the transition from bisexual horde to patrilocal band : the origins of gender hierarchy / Salvatore Cucchiari The bow and burden strap : a new look at institutionalized homosexuality in native North America / Harriet Whitehead Transforming "natural" women : female ritual leaders and gender ideology among Bimin-Kukusmin / Fitz J.P. Poole Self-interest and the social good : some implications of Hagen gender imagery / Marilyn Strathern Sexuality and gender in Samoa : conceptions and missed conceptions / Bradd Shore Like wounded stags : male sexual ideology in an Andalusian town / Stanley Brandes Pigs, women, and the men's house in Amazonia.

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Cover image	Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Vol info	URL	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Item hold queue priority	Course reserves
	General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section				305.38026655 ORT/S (Browse shelf(Opens below))					Available			053111

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Introduction : Accounting for sexual meanings / Sherry B. Ortner and Harriet Whitehead
The gender revolution and the transition from bisexual horde to patrilocal band : the origins of gender hierarchy / Salvatore Cucchiari
The bow and burden strap : a new look at institutionalized homosexuality in native North America / Harriet Whitehead
Transforming "natural" women : female ritual leaders and gender ideology among Bimin-Kukusmin / Fitz J.P. Poole
Self-interest and the social good : some implications of Hagen gender imagery / Marilyn Strathern
Sexuality and gender in Samoa : conceptions and missed conceptions / Bradd Shore
Like wounded stags : male sexual ideology in an Andalusian town / Stanley Brandes
Pigs, women, and the men's house in Amazonia.

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