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245 00 $aSex and violence :$bissues in representation and experience /$cedited by Penelope Harvey and Peter Gow.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c1994.
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300 $a197 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Penelope Harvey and Peter Gow -- 1. Transforming love: representing Fijian hierarchy / Christina Toren -- 2. Condor and bull: the ambiguities of masculinity in Northern Potosi / Olivia Harris -- 3. Domestic violence in the Peruvian Andes / Penelope Harvey -- 4. Ritual and the origin of sexuality in the Alto Xingu / Cecilia McCallum -- 5. Man the hunter: gender and violence in music and drinking contexts in Colombia / Peter Wade -- 6. The problem of explaining violence in the social sciences / Henrietta Moore -- 7. Cultural difference and the lust to kill / Deborah Cameron and Elizabeth Frazer -- 8. What counts as rape? Physical assault and broken contracts: contrasting views of rape among London sex workers / Sophie Day.
520 $aHow do we recognize and identify sex and violence in our own and other cultures? How do anthropologists and feminists differ in their analysis of the relationship between sexuality and violence? The contributors to Sex and Violence are established anthropologists and committed feminists, personally involved in the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in the answers to these questions.
520 8 $aThey look closely at the relationship between social anthropology and its political effect, particularly in terms of the theory and ethnography of gender relations.
520 8 $aThe range of case studies - from Bolivia, Brazil, Britain, Colombia, Fiji, Peru, Japan and the USA - challenges what constitutes violence and sexuality in other cultures and questions the appropriateness of these culturally loaded terms for the analysis of other societies. The chapters examine the distinctive ways in which human relationships are realized and expressed through idioms which we in the west recognize and identify as both sexual and violent.
520 8 $aThey also take up the question of objectification in the study of others by focusing specifically on sex and violence - a topic which, in the west and in feminist politics, epitomizes the hierarchical relation between those who look and those who are looked at.
520 8 $aThis collection of rich and varied ethnographic case studies is an important and original contribution to the debate between feminism and anthropology. Its exploration of gender difference and gender hierarchy is of central concern to both anthropologists and feminists, and the book's multi-cultural approach will appeal to a wide readership, including students and teachers of social anthropology, cultural studies and gender studies.
650 0 $aSex differences (Psychology)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120581
650 0 $aViolence$xSex differences.
650 0 $aAggressiveness$xSex differences.
650 0 $aFeminist anthropology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93006951
700 1 $aGow, Peter$q(Peter G.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013020608
700 1 $aHarvey, Penelope,$d1956-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94009744
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