Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality.

Abstract

List of contributors preface Introduction: accounting for sexual meanings Sherry B. Ortner and Harriet Whitehead Part I. The Cultural Organization of Gender: 1. The gender revolution and the transition from bisexual horde to patrilocal band: the origins of gender hierarchy Salvatore Cucchiari 2. The bow and the burden strap: a new look at institutionalized homosexuality in native North America Harriet Whitehead 3. Transforming 'natural' woman: female ritual leaders and gender ideology among Bimin-Kuskusmin Fitz John Porter Poole 4. Self-interest and the social good: some implications of Hagen gender imagery Maralyn Strathern 5. Sexuality and gender in Samoa: conceptions and missed conceptions Bradd Shore 6. Like wounded stags: male sexual ideology in an Analusian town Stanley Brandes 7. Pigs, women, and the men's house in Amazonia: an analysis of six Mundurucu myths Leslee Nadelson Part II. The Political Contexts of Gender: 8. Politics and gender in simple societies Jane F. Collier and Michelle Z. Rosaldo 9. Women, warriors, and patriarchs Melissa Llewelyn-Davies 10. Gender and sexuality in hierarchical societies: the case of Polynesia and some comparative implications Sherry B. Ortner Index.

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