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Gendered Modernities
Dorothy L. . Ed(S): Hodgson
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Description for Gendered Modernities
Paperback. Based on long-term ethnographic research, this book explores the intersection of "gender" and "modernity" as they are mediated in the lives and subjectivities of diverse individuals and groups. Editor(s): Hodgson, Dorothy L. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Based on long-term ethnographic research, the book chapters explore the intersection of 'gender' and 'modernity' as they are mediated in the lives and subjectivities of diverse individuals and groups. How are the messages of modernity/tradition gendered? How are the material practices and cultural meanings of modernity shaped by local ideas of gender and 'progress'? Together these chapters demonstrate that the ideas of progress, rationality, order, and development encompassed by 'modernity' are profoundly gendered, whether conveyed by mass media images of consumption, agendas of nation-building, or legal discourse. Furthermore, the mutual inflections of gender and modernity are at once pervasively 'global,' ... Read more
Based on long-term ethnographic research, the book chapters explore the intersection of 'gender' and 'modernity' as they are mediated in the lives and subjectivities of diverse individuals and groups. How are the messages of modernity/tradition gendered? How are the material practices and cultural meanings of modernity shaped by local ideas of gender and 'progress'? Together these chapters demonstrate that the ideas of progress, rationality, order, and development encompassed by 'modernity' are profoundly gendered, whether conveyed by mass media images of consumption, agendas of nation-building, or legal discourse. Furthermore, the mutual inflections of gender and modernity are at once pervasively 'global,' ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
Number of Pages
271
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312240134
SKU
V9780312240134
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About Dorothy L. . Ed(S): Hodgson
DOROTHY L. HODGSON teaches anthropology at Rutgers University, where she is an active member of the Center for African Studies and Women's Studies Program. She is the author of 'Once Intrepid Warriors': Gender, Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development, editor of Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa: Gender, Culture and the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist, and co-editor of 'Wicked' ... Read more
Reviews for Gendered Modernities
These stunningly wide-ranging explorations of the experiences of communities from China to Chile,Africa to the Americas, are grounded in the best kind of ethnography: serious, sustained, and leavened with historical imagination. - Lila Abu-Lughod, Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Columbia University