ALL SENIOR CITIZENS SHOULD HAVE LIFE ALERT ([info]stephzilla) wrote in [info]feminist_101,
@ 2008-03-17 16:38:00
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Gender roles in differing cultures
Does anyone have any links to some texts or articles or something about notions of gender/gender roles in cultures other than the United States? I only need one or two examples for this paper I'm writing and am having a very hard time finding much of anything.

Even just mentioning something you heard of would help at this point. Thanks.


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[info]jellybean84
2008-03-17 11:56 pm UTC (link)
You could look into research done by Margaret Mead. In her 1935 book Sex and Temperament, she studied gender roles in three Sepik groups in Papua New Guinea. She found that male and female behavior differed in the three groups and came to the conclusion that gender is socially constructed. Other anthropologists have refuted some of the claims she made, but that could be a good place to start. Good luck!

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[info]dimension_view
2008-03-18 07:46 am UTC (link)
The Batek people of Malaysia http://www.amazon.com/Headman-Was-Woman-Kirk-Endicott/dp/1577665260

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[info]bluestareyed
2008-03-18 01:38 pm UTC (link)
Check out Leila Ahmed for women and gender in Islam and the Middle East.

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