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Title Sexual meanings : the cultural construction of gender and sexuality / edited by Sherry B. Ortner and Harriet Whitehead
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981

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Description x, 435 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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 MundurucĂș 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
Analysis Man Sexes Cultural aspects
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index
Subject Sex role.
Sex symbolism.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Identification (Psychology)
Sex.
Social Behavior.
Symbolism.
Author Ortner, Sherry B., 1941-
Whitehead, Harriet.
LC no. 80026655
ISBN 0521239656
0521283752 (paperback)