Title Sexual meanings, the cultural construction of gender and sexuality / edited by Sherry B. Ortner and Harriet Whitehead.

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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	305.3 S518S	Check Shelf

Description	x, 435 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : Accounting for sexual meanings / Sherry B. Ortner and Harriet Whitehead -- The gender revolution and the transition from bisexual horde to patrilocal band : the origins of gender hierarchy / Salvatore Cucchiari -- The bow and burden strap : a new look at institutionalized homosexuality in native North America / Harriet Whitehead -- Transforming "natural" women : female ritual leaders and gender ideology among Bimin-Kukusmin / Fitz J.P. Poole -- Self-interest and the social good : some implications of Hagen gender imagery / Marilyn Strathern -- Sexuality and gender in Samoa : conceptions and missed conceptions / Bradd Shore -- Like wounded stags : male sexual ideology in an Andalusian town / Stanley Brandes -- Pigs, women, and the men's house in Amazonia : an analysis of six Mundurucú myths / Leslee Nadelson -- Politics and gender in simple societies / Jane F. Collier and Michelle Z. Rosaldo -- Women, warriors, and patriarchs / Melissa Llewelyn-Davies -- Gender and sexuality in hierarchical societies : the case of Polynesia and some comparative inplications / Sherry B. Ortner.
Subject	Sex role.
	Sex symbolism.
	Cross-Cultural Comparison. (DNLM)D003431
	Identification, Psychological. (DNLM)D007062
	Sex. (DNLM)D012723
	Social Behavior. (DNLM)D012919
	Symbolism. (DNLM)D013561
	Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
	Sex symbolism. (OCoLC)fst01114661
	Geschlechterrolle (DE-588)4071776-8
	Kulturanthropologie (DE-588)4133903-4
	Sexualverhalten (DE-588)4116485-4
	Sekserol.
	Geschlechterrolle.
	Kulturanthropologie.
	Sexualverhalten.
Indexed Term	Man Sexes Cultural aspects
Added Author	Ortner, Sherry B., 1941-
	Whitehead, Harriet.
ISBN	0521239656
	9780521239653
	0521283752 (pbk.)
	9780521283755 (pbk.)

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