Kinship and Gender: An Introduction

This book explores gender cross-culturally through the framework of kinship. It includes fifteen ethnographic case studies to give students a strong sense of the intricate interconnections between kinship and gender as a lived experience and among a variety of cultural groups.

• "Chopsticks Only Work in Pairs"
• Writing Women's Worlds
• A World of Babies: Imagined Childcare Guides for Eight Societies
• Marriage in Culture: Practice and Meaning Across Diverse Societies
• Primeval Kinship: How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society
• Families as They Really Are (Second Edition)
• Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel
• The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State, Second Edition
• Fertility Holidays: IVF Tourism and the Reproduction of Whiteness
• Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives