Love, Sorrow, and Rage: Destitute Women in a Manhattan Residence

Love, Sorrow, and Rage: Destitute Women in. Manhattan Residence . Alisse Waterston. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. xi + 235 pp.     

"Strong Women" and "Pretty Girls": Self-Provisioning, Gender, and Class Identity in Rural Galicia (Spain)

In this article I examine expressions of class and gender identity in a worker-peasant community in rural Galicia (Spain). While men who have worked for decades in migrant destinations define their own class positionality partly through reference to the unpaid, subsistence work that is performed mainly by women who remain in the community, these same women adeptly "code switch" between "strong woman" and '"pretty girl" demeanors through their work activities, dress, and use of domestic spaces. Using the example of ethnographic data from this one part of rural Europe, 1 argue for the broader importance of anthropologists considering how laboring bodies become gendered; the intersections between gender and class identities; and connections among mixed livelihood strategies, the continuity of self-provisioning activities, and resistance to fully commoditized consumption. [Key words: class and gender identity, Galicia, Spain, unpaid provisioning work, consumption]     

Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality

Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality. Sue-Ellen Jacobs. Wesley Thomas. and Sabine Lang, eds. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1997.332 pp.     

Women and Bullfighting: Gender, Sex and the Consumption of Tradition.

Women and Bullfighting: Gender, Sex and the Consumption of Tradition. Sarah Pink. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers, 1997. 234 pp.     

Rituals of Gender Identity: Markers of Siberian Khanty Ethnicity, Status, and Belief

Siberian Khanty (Ostiak) menstrual taboos and related rituals of birth, naming, and marriage are analyzed, in order to explore cross-cultural theories of menstrual restriction, gender stratification, and female conservatism. Emphasis is placed on Mary Douglas's idea that conflicting norms of male dominance and female independence can encourage pollution beliefs. The importance of ancestresses, female shamans, and postmenopausal women in Khanty ritual indicates that there is no male monopoly on concepts of culture, power, the sacred and the "public." Khanty ideas about women, changing with Russian influence, are discussed in terms of slowly shifting definitions of "self and ethnicity. Data result from 13 months in the Soviet Union, including a summer ethnographic expedition to the Northern Ob River . [symbolic anthropology, pollution beliefs, gender stratification, ethnicity, Siberian Khanty (Ostiak)]     

Women of Belize: Gender and Change in Central America

Women of Belize: Gender and Change in Central America. Irma McClaurin. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996.218 pp.     

Believing Identity: Pentecostalism and the Mediation of Jamaican Ethnicity and Gender in England

Believing Identity: Pentecostalism and the Mediation of Jamaican Ethnicity and Gender in England. Nicole Rodriguez Toulis. New York: New York University Press, 1997.304 pp.     

Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger

Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger. Adeline Masquelier. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. 352 pp.     

Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops: Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields

Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops: Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields. Miriam Goheen. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. 252 pp.     

Development,Labour Relations and Gender in Papua New Guinea.

This paper examines the relationship between ‘subsistence’ production, simple commodity production and wage labour and the different effects this relationship has on males and females. The peri-urban village of Siar, located a few kilometres north of Madang town in Papua New Guinea, is used as a case study. It is argued that the village as a social group is dependent on wage labour for its reproduction and hence is proletarianized. As part of the proletarianization process, married women in the village have become doubly subordinated: to capital and to men.     

Plain Women: Gender and Ritual in the Old Order River Brethren.

Plain Women: Gender and Ritual in the Old Order River Brethren. Margaret C. Reynolds. with. foreword by Simon J. Bronner, ed. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. 192 pp.