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- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Gender_Studies/Gendered_Lives%3A_Global_Issues/02%3A_South_Asia/2.03%3A_Understanding_Caste_and_Kinship_within_Hijras_a_Third_Gender_Community_in_IndiaIn this chapter, the author looks at the organization and functions of a third-gender group in India: the hijras. Here we see how hierarchy and caste also shape third-gender hijra communities. These c...In this chapter, the author looks at the organization and functions of a third-gender group in India: the hijras. Here we see how hierarchy and caste also shape third-gender hijra communities. These communities create and operate through discipleship-kinship systems that both regulate their activities and create a power structure among the hijras. These kinship systems are not recognized and legitimized by the Indian state but by the internal hijra governance councils.
- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Gender_Studies/Gendered_Lives%3A_Global_Issues/01%3A_Introduction
- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Gender_Studies/Gendered_Lives%3A_Global_Issues/04%3A_The_Caribbean/4.02%3A_Quinceaneras-_Girls_Coming-of-Age_Parties_in_Contemporary_Havana_CubaIn this chapter, the author explores the phenomenon of flamboyant girls’ fifteenth birthday parties (quinceañeras) as a gender-specific ritual. The author discusses the ways that this life-cycle ritua...In this chapter, the author explores the phenomenon of flamboyant girls’ fifteenth birthday parties (quinceañeras) as a gender-specific ritual. The author discusses the ways that this life-cycle ritual celebrates the girl’s entry into sexual adulthood, portrays her as an object of heterosexual desire, while simultaneously granting the girls ritual and exotic agency.
- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Gender_Studies/Gendered_Lives%3A_Global_Issues/02%3A_South_Asia/2.01%3A_South_Asia-_Introducing_the_RegionConforming to the strong cultural value placed on women’s integration within their families and communities, ensuring protection and support for an abused woman who would like to return to their commu...Conforming to the strong cultural value placed on women’s integration within their families and communities, ensuring protection and support for an abused woman who would like to return to their communities, and carrying out formal government procedures for addressing domestic violence (such as reporting domestic violence to the nearest police station in the women’s community, the government commune People’s Committee, or the community’s leaders), the shelter also contacts local government auth…
- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Gender_Studies/Gendered_Lives%3A_Global_Issues/03%3A_Latin_America/3.05%3A_Qeqchi-Maya_Women-_Memory_Markets_and_Multilevel_Marketing_in_GuatemalaWilk (1991, 201) argues that historically, the Q’eqchi’ community has excluded women from agricultural production or wage labor as well, meaning that they “have no currency, no ability to motivate pro...Wilk (1991, 201) argues that historically, the Q’eqchi’ community has excluded women from agricultural production or wage labor as well, meaning that they “have no currency, no ability to motivate production, no power over the ultimate source of all food and wealth.” In other words, a marked division of labor relegates women to perform domestic work in the home, while men have the freedom to work, participate in ritual, and socialize outside of the home (Adams 1999; Ghidinelli 1975, 252).
- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Gender_Studies/Gendered_Lives%3A_Global_IssuesGendered Lives takes a regional approach to examine gender issues from an anthropological perspective with a focus on globalization and intersectionality. Chapters present contributors' ethnographic r...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.
- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Gender_Studies/Gendered_Lives%3A_Global_Issues/04%3A_The_Caribbean/4.01%3A_The_Caribbean-_Introducing_the_RegionIn the aftermath of the Haitian revolution, the United States implemented the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, designed to deter the former European colonial powers from engaging in continued political activi...In the aftermath of the Haitian revolution, the United States implemented the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, designed to deter the former European colonial powers from engaging in continued political activity in the Americas and simultaneously giving the United States the right to intervene in the region.
- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Gender_Studies/Gendered_Lives%3A_Global_Issues/03%3A_Latin_AmericaCIA Maps.
- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Gender_Studies/Gendered_Lives%3A_Global_Issues/00%3A_Front_Matter/06%3A_PrefaceThis first edition of the textbook presents the responses to our call for contributors and includes research based in the following regions: Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, and the Global No...This first edition of the textbook presents the responses to our call for contributors and includes research based in the following regions: Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, and the Global North (Europe and North America). If you are interested in contributing to the next edition and helping us expand the geographic and topical coverage of the book—or have a profile of an activist or organization you’d like to add—we would love to hear from you.
- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Gender_Studies/Gendered_Lives%3A_Global_Issues/02%3A_South_Asia/2.02%3A_Controlling_National_Borders_by_Controlling_Reproduction-_Gender_Nationalism_and_Nepals_Citizenship_LawsIn this chapter the authors discuss how Nepal, a small country located between two powerful nations (China and India), struggles to maintain its sovereignty and national identity. The state’s politics...In this chapter the authors discuss how Nepal, a small country located between two powerful nations (China and India), struggles to maintain its sovereignty and national identity. The state’s politics of belonging exclude certain groups of women from citizenship. Caste, class, national origin, and ethnic markers like language intersect to affect women’s access to the rights granted to citizens.
- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Gender_Studies/Gendered_Lives%3A_Global_Issues/04%3A_The_Caribbean/4.03%3A_Jamaican_Realities_of_Masculinities_and_Sexualities-_Where_Have_We_Come_Since_Michel_FoucaultIn this chapter, the authors apply a gendered perspective to analyze views of masculinity among men from various socioeconomic groups in Jamaica. Using Michel Foucault’s ideas of sexuality, they expla...In this chapter, the authors apply a gendered perspective to analyze views of masculinity among men from various socioeconomic groups in Jamaica. Using Michel Foucault’s ideas of sexuality, they explain how the act of sexual intercourse is seen as more than the act itself but an essential part of one’s identity. For Jamaican males, their sexualities are closely tied to their masculinities and what it means to be a Jamaican man.
