Books on Reserve (Spring 2011)

Multiple copies of these books are on reserve in the library. Many of these books are also available in the bookstore. See Course Book List.

See Class Schedule for specific required and supplementary readings from these books, as well as articles and excerpts on reserve in folders in the library.

Week One

  • Mascia-Lees, Frances and Nancy Johnson Black. Gender and Anthropology. Waveland Press, 2000. (many copies)
  • Lancaster and di Leonardo, (Eds.), The Gender/Sexuality Reader, New York: Routledge, 1997.. (many copies)
  • Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez, (eds.) Gender, Race and Class in Media. London: Sage, 1995 (many copies)

Week Two

  • Ortner, Sherry: Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996
  • Carol P. MacCormack, Ed. Nature, Culture, Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
  • Lancaster and di Leonardo, (Eds.), The Gender/Sexuality Reader, New York: Routledge, 1997.. (many copies)
  • Susan McKinnon. Neo-liberal Genetics: The Myths and Moral Tales of Evolutionary Psychology. Prickly Paradigm Press, 2006.
  • Pinker, Steven. How the Mind Works. New York: Norton.

Week Three

  • Brettell, Caroline and Carolyn F. Sargent, (Eds.). Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective.London: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1997
  • Martin, Emily. The woman in the body : a cultural analysis of reproduction. Boston : Beacon Press, 1987.
  • Lancaster and di Leonardo, (Eds.), The Gender/Sexuality Reader, New York: Routledge, 1997. (many copies)
  • Nancy Duncan, (Ed.), Bodyspace: Destabilizing Geographies of Gender and Sexuality. New York: Routledge, 1996.
  • Ginsburg and Tsing, eds. Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1990.

Week Four

  • Harry Brod and Michael Kaufman, (Eds.), Theorizing Masculinities. London: Sage Publications, 1994.
  • Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez, (eds.) Gender, Race and Class in Media. London: Sage, 1995
  • Lancaster, Roger. The Trouble with Nature.
  • Lamphere et al (Eds.), Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life. New York: Routledge, 1997.
  • hooks, bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation, 1992.
  • Manderson and Jolly, (Eds.), Sites of Desire, Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Week Five

  • McKinnon and Silverman, eds., Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nuture. Chicago, 2005.
  • Brandtstädter, Susanne, Gonçalo D Santos, eds. Chinese Kinship: Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives. Routledge, 2008.
  • Weston, Kath. Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

Week Six

  • Rabinow, ed. The Foucault Reader, 1984.
  • Stephens, Sharon. Children and the Politics of Culture. Sharon Stephens, ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Thorne, Barrie. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School. Routledge, 1993.
  • Harry Brod and Michael Kaufman, (Eds.), Theorizing Masculinities. London: Sage Publications, 1994.

Week Seven

  • Micaela di Leonardo, ed., Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991
  • Hall, Kira and Mary Bucholtz. Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Week Eight

  • Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1999.
  • Lancaster and di Leonardo, (Eds.), The Gender/Sexuality Reader, New York: Routledge, 1997. (many copies)
  • Robertson, Jennifer. Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Week Nine

  • Mahmood, Saba. Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject Princeton University Press, 2005.

Week Ten

  • Sanday, Peggy Reeves.  A Woman Scorned: Acquaintance Rape on Trial. Berkeley: UCalif. press, 1997.
  • Enloe, Cynthia. 2000. Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.

Week Eleven

  • Mohanty, Chandra. Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Duke, 2003
  • Lancaster and di Leonardo, (Eds.), The Gender/Sexuality Reader, New York: Routledge, 1997. (many copies)
  • Lamphere et al (Eds.), Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life. New York: Routledge, 1997.
  • Enloe, Cynthia. Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. London: Pandora, 1989.
  • Mcpherson, Tara. Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South. Duke University Press, 2003.

Week Twelve

  • Sassen, Saskia. Globalization and its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money. NY: The New Press, 1998.
  • Lee, Ching Kwan. Gender and the South China Miracle: 2 worlds of factory women. California, 1998

Week Thirteen

  • Wardlow, Holly. Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society. Univ. of CA press, 2006.
  • Lancaster, Roger. The Trouble with Nature.
  • Mohanty, Chandra. Feminism Without Borders.