In response to global change, people create new opportunities and conditions, and in their responses they are influenced by both gender and age. In Gender, Agency and Change the contributors illustrate the complexities involved in the constitution and performance of agency. Such agency may be reflected in strategies of accommodation and adaption that can nevertheless produce new institutional arrangements. Alternatively, they may be directed towards the outright rejection of these processes. The cases examined in this volume explore the ways in which different subjects engage in the reformulation of spaces, roles and identities, redefining the boundaries between, and the content of, the 'public' and the 'private'. The examples also provide an account of how gendered discourses are deployed to convey new meanings, a new sense of place and time, confirming or challenging ideas of 'tradition' and 'modernity'. This collection will be of particular interest to students of anthropology and gender studies.
Author(s): Victoria Goddard
Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 304
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Figures......Page 8
Tables......Page 9
Contributors......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
1. Introduction......Page 13
2. Gender and Difference......Page 38
3. Women are women or how to please your husband......Page 57
4. Kinship, gender and work in socialist and post-socialist rural Poland......Page 81
5. Properties of identity......Page 94
6. Gendered houses......Page 111
7. Gender and politics through language practices among urban Cape Verde men......Page 128
8. Out of the house—to do what?......Page 146
9. The ‘old red woman’ against the ‘young blue hooligan’......Page 170
10. ‘The virgin and the state’......Page 191
11. Writing the usual love story......Page 214
Index......Page 232
