Gender and Difference in a Globalizing World

Gender and Difference in a Globalizing World Description

Gender and Difference in a Globalizing World 0 Edition "Mascia-Lees' ... ability to synthesize ideas rewards readers wih a text that clearly conceptualizes how differences of gender, race, class, and sexuality structure today's complex globalizing world. It exposes the strengths and weaknesses of different theoretical orientations used in anthropology to study gender, difference, power, and inequality including feminist anthropology; black feminist anthropology; lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered theory; practice, postcolonial, symbolic, and psychological anthropology; as well as social evolutionism, sociobiology, and evolutionary pscyhology, among others"--P. [4] of cover.