Carved Flesh / Cast Selves

Download or read book Carved Flesh / Cast Selves written by Vigdis Broch-Due and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1993-01-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.