Qualifying Exam bibliography for:

Anthropological perspectives on gender

Themes within this list:

Theory of gender/sexuality

Performance theory

History of gender studies

Masculinities

Sex/sexuality

Gender and media

Gender and race

Gender and (post)colonialism

Gender and Reproduction

Abu-Lughod, Lila

1986 Veiled Sentiments: honor and poetry in a Bedouin society. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Bamberger, Joan

1974 The Myth of Matriarchy: why men rule in primitive society. In Michelle Zimbalist and Louise Lamphere Rosaldo(ed.) Women, Culture and Society Pp. 263-280. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Boddy, Janice

1989 Wombs and Alien Spirts: Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Boddy, Janice

1997 Womb as Oasis: the symbolic context of pharaonic circumcision in rural northern Sudan. In Roger N. and Micaela di Leonardo Lancaster(ed.) The Gender Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Ecnomy Pp. 309-324. New York and London: Routledge.

Bordo, Susan

1993 Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Bordo, Susan

1997 "Material Girl"; the effacements of postmodern culture. In Roger N. and Micaela di Leonardo Lancaster(ed.) The Gender Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Ecnomy Pp. 335-360. New York and London: Routledge.

Butler, Judith

1990 Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. London and New York: Routledge.

Butler, Judtih

1993 Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive limits of “sex”. New York: Routledge.

Butler, Judith

1997 Performative Acts and Gender Consitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory. In Katie Conboy and Nadia MedinaandSarah Stanbury(ed.) Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory Pp. 401-418. New York: Columbia University Press.

Chodorow, Nancy

1974 Family Structure and Feminine Personality. In Michelle Zimbalist and Louise Lamphere Rosaldo(ed.) Women, Culture and Society Pp. 43-66. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Di Leonardo, Micaela

1997 White Lies, Black Myths: rape, race, and the Black "underclass". In Roger N. and Micaela di Leonardo Lancaster(ed.) The Gender/Sexuality Reader: culture, history, political economy Pp. 53-70. New York and London: Routledge.

Di Leonardo, Micaela and Roger N. Lancaster

1997 Introduction: Embodied Meanings, Carnal Practices. In Roger N. and Micaela di Leonardo Lancaster(ed.) The Gender Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Ecnomy Pp. 1-10. New York and London: Routledge.

Foucault, Michel

1976 The History of Sexuality: An Introduction. 1, New York: Vintage Books.

Freeman, Carla

2000 High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Ginsburg, Faye and Rayna Rapp.

1995 Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press

Guttman, Matthew C.

1997 Seed of the Nation: Men's sex and potency in Mexico. In Roger N. and Micaela di Leonardo Lancaster(ed.) The Gender Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Ecnomy Pp. 194-208. New York and London: Routledge.

Hiltebeitel, Alf and Kathleen M. Erndl

2000 Is the Goddess a Feminist? The Politics of South Asian Goddesses. New York: New York University Press

Hochschild, Arlie Russell

1989 The Second Shift. New York: Avon Books.

Hochschild, Arlie Russell

1983 The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Lancaster, Robert and Micheala di Leonardo

1997 The Gender/Sexuality Reader: culture, history, political economy. New York and London: Routledge

Lutz, Catherine and Jane Collins

1993 Reading National Geographic. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

Lutz, Catherine and Jane Collins

1997 The Color of Sex: postwar photographic histories of race and gender in National Geographic magazine. In Roger N. and Micaela di Leonardo Lancaster(ed.) The Gender Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Ecnomy Pp. 291-308. New York and London: Routledge.

Mankekar, Purnima

1999 Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womenhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Martin, Emily

1987 The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. Boston: Beacon Press.

Massey, Doreen

1994 Space, Place and Gender. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Ong, Aihwa

1999 Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Ong, Aihwa

1987 Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: factory women in Malaysia. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Ortner, Sherry

1996 Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture? In Sherry Ortner(ed.) Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture Pp. 21-42. Boston: Beacon Press.

Ortner, Sherry

1996 So, Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture? In Sherry Ortner(ed.) Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture Pp. 173-180. Boston: Beacon Press.

Radway, Janice A.

1984 Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press.

Raheja, Gloria Goodwin and Ann Grodzins Gold

1994 Listen To The Heron's Worlds: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder

2001 Signposts: Gender Issues in Post-Independence IndiaNew Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press

Rapp, Rayna

2000 Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America. New York and London: Routledge.

Rapp, Rayna

1991 Moral Pioneers: Women, Men, and Fetuses on a Frontier of Reproductive Technology. In Micaela di Leonardo(ed.) Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Reiter (Rapp), Rayna, ed.

1975 Toward an Anthropology of Women. New York and London: Monthly Reivew Press.

Rofel, Lisa

1997 Rethinking Modernity: space and factory discipline in China. In Akhil and James Ferguson Gupta(ed.) Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology Pp. 155-178. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Rosaldo, Michelle Zimbalist

1974 Women, Culture and Society: a theorectical overview. In Michelle Zimbalist and Louise Lamphere Rosaldo(ed.) Women, Culture and Society Pp. 17-42. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Rosaldo, Michelle Zimbalist and Louise Lamphere

1974 Women, Culture and Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press

Rosaldo, Michelle Zimbalist and Louise Lamphere

1974 Introduction. In Michelle Zimbalist and Louise Lamphere Rosaldo(ed.) Women, Culture and Society Pp. 1-16. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Ross, Ellen and Rayna Rapp

1997 Sex and Society: a research note from social history and anthropology. In Roger N. and Micaela di Leonardo Lancaster(ed.) The Gender Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Ecnomy Pp. 153-168. New York and London: Routledge.

Rubin, Gayle

1975 The Traffic in Women: notes on the "political economy" of sex. In Rayna Reiter (Rapp)(ed.) Toward an Anthropology of Women Pp. 157-210. New York and London: Monthly Reivew Press.

Sacks, Karen

1975 Engels Revisited: women, the organization of production, and private property. In Rayna Reiter (Rapp)(ed.) Toward an Anthropology of Women Pp. 211-234. New York and London: Monthly Reivew Press.

Scott, Joan Wallace

1988 Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis. In Joan Wallace Scott(ed.) Gender and the Politics of History Pp. 28-50. New York: Columbia University Press.

Scott, Joan Wallace

1988 Introduction. In Joan Wallace Scott(ed.) Gender and the Politics of History Pp. 1-14. New York: Columbia University Press.

Scott, Joan Wallace

1988 Women's History. In Joan Wallace Scott(ed.) Gender and the Politics of History Pp. 15-27. New York: Columbia University Press.

Slocum, Sally

1975 Woman the Gatherer: male bias in anthropology. In Rayna Reiter (Rapp)(ed.) Toward an Anthropology of Women Pp. 36-50. New York and London: Monthly Reivew Press.

Stoler, Ann Laura

1997 Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: gender, race, and morality in colinial Asia. In Roger N. and Micaela di Leonardo Lancaster(ed.) The Gender/Sexuality Reader: culture, history, political economy Pp. 13-36. New York and London: Routledge.

Webster, Paula

1975 Matriarchy: a vision of power. In Rayna Reiter (Rapp)(ed.) Toward an Anthropology of Women Pp. 141-156. New York and London: Monthly Reivew Press.