Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality
- New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
- 435p.
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.