Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Key Concepts -- Chapter 2: Key Perspectives -- Part II: South Asia -- Chapter 3: Introducing the Region -- Chapter 4: Controlling National Borders by Controlling Reproduction -- Chapter 5: Understanding Caste and Kinship within Hijras, a “Third” Gender Community in India -- Chapter 6: The “City” and “The Easy Life”: Work and Gender among Sherpa in Nepal -- Part III: Latin America -- Chapter 7: Latin America: Introducing the Region -- Chapter 8: Being a Good Mexican Man by Embracing “Erectile Dysfunction” -- Chapter 9: Intersectionality and Normative Masculinity in Northeast Brazil -- Chapter 10: Mexico’s Antipoverty Program Oportunidades and the Shifting Dynamics of Citizenship for Ñuu Savi (Mixtec) Village Women -- Chapter 11: Q’eqchi’-Maya Women: Memory, Markets, and Multilevel Marketing in Guatemala -- Part IV: The Caribbean -- Chapter 12: The Caribbean: Introducing the Region -- Chapter 13: Quinceañeras: Girls’ Coming-of-Age Parties in Contemporary Havana, Cuba -- Chapter 14: Jamaican Realities of Masculinities and Sexualities: “How Far Have We Come since Michel Foucault?” -- Part V: The Global North (North America and Europe) -- Chapter 15: The Global North: Introducing the Region -- Chapter 16: Mothers Acting up Online -- Chapter 17: Male Sex Work in Canada: Intersections of Gender and Sexuality -- Chapter 18: Intersectionality and Muslim Women in Belgium -- Chapter 19: Fatherhood and Family Relations in Transnational Migration from Mezcala, Mexico

A gender studies textbook that takes an anthropological approach. Gendered Lives takes a regional approach to examine gender issues from an anthropological perspective with a focus on globalization and intersectionality. Chapters present contributors’ ethnographic research, contextualizing their findings within four geographic regions: Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, and the Global North. Each regional section begins with an overview of the broader historical, social, and gendered contexts, which situate the regions within larger global linkages. These introductions also feature short project/people profiles that highlight the work of community leaders or non-governmental organizations active in gender-related issues. Each research-based chapter begins with a chapter overview and learning objectives and closes with discussion questions and resources for further exploration. This modular, regional approach allows instructors to select the regions and cases they want to use in their courses. While they can be used separately, the chapters are connected through the book’s central themes of globalization and intersectionality.

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In English.

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