Carved Flesh / Cast Selves Gendered Symbols and Social Practices [Hardcover]

This volume, the first comprehensive overview of Scandinavian cross-cultural research on gender issues in the English language, addresses fundamental analytical issues currently debated within international feminist anthropology and beyond. Offering examples from a wide range of ethnographic settings, the essays show that gender comprises far more than sexual relationships: it takes on political significance insofar as it influences the distribution of resources and access to public and domestic spheres, to knowledge and to power.

Edited byVigdis Broch-Due I. Rudie, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo andTone Bleie, Chair, Michelsen's Institute, Bergen.