Kinship and Gender

Kinship and Gender
Author: Linda Stone
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2011-07-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1459623916

Designed for undergraduate courses in kinship, gender, or the two combined, Linda Stone's Kinship and Gender is the product of years of teaching. The topic of kinship comes alive when linked to gender issues; conversely, the cross-cultural study o...

Gender and Kinship

Gender and Kinship
Author: Jane Fishburne Collier
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1987
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780804718196

A Stanford University Press classic.

Religion, Gender, and Kinship in Colonial New France

Religion, Gender, and Kinship in Colonial New France
Author: Lisa J. M. Poirier
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2016-10-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0815653867

The individual and cultural upheavals of early colonial New France were experienced differently by French explorers and settlers, and by Native traditionalists and Catholic converts. However, European invaders and indigenous people alike learned to negotiate the complexities of cross-cultural encounters by reimagining the meaning of kinship. Part micro-history, part biography, Religion, Gender, and Kinship in Colonial New France explores the lives of Etienne Brulé, Joseph Chihoatenhwa, Thérèse Oionhaton, and Marie Rollet Hébert as they created new religious orientations in order to survive the challenges of early seventeenth-century New France. Poirier examines how each successfully adapted their religious and cultural identities to their surroundings, enabling them to develop crucial relationships and build communities. Through the lens of these men and women, both Native and French, Poirier illuminates the historical process and powerfully illustrates the religious creativity inherent in relationship-building.

Mediated Kinship

Mediated Kinship
Author: Rikke Andreassen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2018-09-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351233416

Illustrating the fascinating intersections of online media and new kinship, this book presents a study of the increasing numbers of single women and lesbian couples reproducing by using donor sperm. It explores how they connect with each other online, develop intimate digital communities and, most importantly, locate their children’s hitherto unknown biological half-siblings, throughout the world. The author discusses how these new families - consisting of only mothers - engage in extended families involving large numbers of ‘donor siblings’. The new families challenge previous understandings of kinship, and provide illustrations of how norms of gender, sexuality and family are challenged, negotiated and maintained in contemporary times. A crucial study of contemporary formations of family, gender and race, Mediated Kinship discusses the racial aspects of the world’s largest sperm bank exporting Danish sperm (termed ‘Viking sperm’), and explores the narratives of whiteness and imagined racial superiority that circulate among mothers, as well as the racialisations accompanying commercial online sperm sales. By analysing contemporary families of donor-conceived children in the context of legislation, reproduction technologies and online media, the book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in race and ethnicity, whiteness, gender, sexuality, kinship and the sociology of the family.

Sex, Gender, and Kinship

Sex, Gender, and Kinship
Author: Burton Pasternak
Publisher: Pearson
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1997
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Responding to a growing interest in the nature and place of family in society, this text looks at gender, families, family relationships and the role of larger kin groups from a cross-cultural perspective. It draws upon ethnographic accounts and cross-cultural studies to determine and illustrate possible characteristics and outcomes, highlight options that occur more or less frequently, and--where possible--to account for choices made.

Kinship to Kingship

Kinship to Kingship
Author: Christine Ward Gailey
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 1987-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0292724586

Have women always been subordinated? If not, why and how did women’s subordination develop? Kinship to Kingship was the first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society. Using a Marxist-feminist approach, Christine Ward Gailey analyzes women’s status in one society over three hundred years, from a period when kinship relations organized property, work, distribution, consumption, and reproduction to a class-based state society. Although this study focuses on one group of islands, Tonga, in the South Pacific, the author discusses processes that can be seen through the neocolonial world. This ethnohistorical study argues that evolution from a kin-based society to one organized along class lines necessarily entails the subordination of women. And the opposite is also held to be true: state and class formation cannot be understood without analyzing gender and the status of women. Of interest to students of anthropology, political science, sociology, and women’s studies, this work is a major contribution to social history.

Gender, Kinship and Power

Gender, Kinship and Power
Author: Mary Jo Maynes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2014-01-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317721942

Through twenty engaging essays exploring cultures ranging from ancient Judaic civilization to contemporary Brazil, Gender, Kinship and Power places important contemporary issues related to kinship--such as parental responsibility and female-headed households--in their proper comparative and historical framework.

In Good Relation

In Good Relation
Author: Sarah Nickel
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2020-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0887558526

Over the past thirty years, a strong canon of Indigenous feminist literature has addressed how Indigenous women are uniquely and dually affected by colonialism and patriarchy. Indigenous women have long recognized that their intersectional realities were not represented in mainstream feminism, which was principally white, middle-class, and often ignored realities of colonialism. As Indigenous feminist ideals grew, Indigenous women became increasingly multi-vocal, with multiple and oppositional understandings of what constituted Indigenous feminism and whether or not it was a useful concept. Emerging from these dialogues are conversations from a new generation of scholars, activists, artists, and storytellers who accept the usefulness of Indigenous feminism and seek to broaden the concept. In Good Relation captures this transition and makes sense of Indigenous feminist voices that are not necessarily represented in existing scholarship. There is a need to further Indigenize our understandings of feminism and to take the scholarship beyond a focus on motherhood, life history, or legal status (in Canada) to consider the connections between Indigenous feminisms, Indigenous philosophies, the environment, kinship, violence, and Indigenous Queer Studies. Organized around the notion of “generations,” this collection brings into conversation new voices of Indigenous feminist theory, knowledge, and experience. Taking a broad and critical interpretation of Indigenous feminism, it depicts how an emerging generation of artists, activists, and scholars are envisioning and invigorating the strength and power of Indigenous women.

Fertile Bonds

Fertile Bonds
Author: Suzanne E. Joseph
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-11-30
Genre: Bedouins
ISBN: 9780813054100

A portrait of a group of Bedouins in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, a population with the highest fertility rate in the world.

Women and Kinship

Women and Kinship
Author: Leela Dube
Publisher: Sri Satguru Publications
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Asia
ISBN: 9788170366188

Departing Significantly From Existing Approaches, This Book Argues Forcefully That The School Of Thought Which Holds That The Family And Therefore Kinship Systems Should Be Stable Has To Be Challenged In Order To Usher In Gender Equality. Essential Reading For Students And Scholars In The Fields Of Gender Studies, Kinship And Family Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Health And Nutrition And Education.