The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality

With contributions from a diverse team of authors, this is a state-of-the-art overview of the anthropology of gender and sexuality.

Cecilia McCallum (Edited by), Silvia Posocco (Edited by), Martin Fotta (Edited by)

9781108427449, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 19 October 2023

655 pages
25.1 x 17.5 x 3.9 cm, 1.29 kg

'Recommended.' S. Marks, CHOICE

The tense but enduring engagement between anthropology and gender and sexuality studies has had profound effects upon anthropological theory and practice. Bringing together contributions from an international team of authors, this Handbook shows that anthropological work has taken inspiration from feminist and LGBTQI movements to create a transformative body of research. It provides an accessible, state-of-the-art overview of the anthropology of gender and sexuality whilst also documenting its historical emergence, highlighting the varied impact gender and sexuality studies have had on anthropological theory. It is split into five parts, with each chapter introducing a contemporary anthropological theory through in-depth ethnographical discussion. It features intersectional, black, and indigenous authors, providing a forum for established and emerging voices to gesture towards futures of anthropology of gender and sexuality. Authoritative and cutting-edge, it is essential reading for researchers and students in anthropology, and will set the agenda for future research in the field.

1. Introduction to the Cambridge handbook of the anthropology of gender and sexuality Silvia Posocco, Cecilia McCallum and Martin Fotta
Part I. Openings and Orientations: 2. Remixing feminist epistemology and methodology Sameena Mulla and Daná-Ain Davis
3. Critical ethnography as a collective feminist project Henrike Donner
4. Kinship and relatedness as vital lens Resto Cruz
5. Reframing the social, rethinking the body, confronting biologism Victor Sacha Cova and Heather Anne Swanson
Part II. Knowledges and Domains: 6. Gender, sociality and the person Cecilia McCallum
7. The postmodern moment in gender studies and anthropology Sarah Green and Tuija Pulkkinen
8. Gender(ed) language and the linguistics of sexuality Stephanie Rudwick
9. Conceptualising bodies, hierarchy and gendering across cultures Subhadra Mitra Channa
10. Language, gender & sexuality and performativity William L. Leap
11. Anthropological engagements with men and masculinities Paul Scheibelhofer and Daniel Monterescu
Part III. Resistances and Intersections: 12. Social and cultural politics of resistance and empowerment Mengia Tschalaer
13. Re-working black feminist anthropology through transnational scholar-activism and anti-racist solidarity in Africa and its diaspora Riché J. Daniel Barnes
14. Gender in decolonial indigenous perspectives Olga Ulturgasheva
15. Anthropologies of reproduction, abortion, and biopolitics Michele Rivkin-Fish
16. Gender, capitalism, and the Erotics of finance Caroline E. Schuster
17. Untying poverty's gendered knots past and present Vigdis Broch-Due
Part IV. Desires and Relations: 18. Subjectivities, knowledge and gendered and sexual transitions Paul Boyce and Akshay Khanna
19. Feminist and queer theories of the non/human & paradoxical possibilities of the slash Logan Natalie O'Laughlin
20. Blood, gender and politics in indigenous View Luisa Elvira Belaunde and Cecilia McCallum
21. 'At home' in Botox, feminism and ethics Jeanette Edwards
Part V. Recursivities and Futures: 22. Ontological sex-genders E. J. Gonzalez-Polledo
23. Futures Emilia Sanabria.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography [JHMC]