Gender

Bibliographic Data

ID22368045
AuthorsAlison Dundon (The University of Adelaide, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages1-12
Publication date2018-09-05
Open AccessYes
TypeOTHER
VenueThe International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1715
OpenAlexW4243634803
ISBN9781118924396
LanguageEN
References cited13

This entry outlines processes whereby gender has become a key concept in the analysis of relations between men and women in anthropology. It explores the disciplinary development of the study of gender, initially under the auspices of the “anthropology of women” and feminist anthropology, but also encompassing a wide set of intersections with other categories, concepts, and issues. It charts the early definition and analysis of gender in terms of the sex/gender model, in which gender was considered a cultural construct overlaid on a biological “sex.” The entry traces subsequent propositions that sex is also socially constituted, and the ways in which anthropologists have sought to ethnographically demonstrate the generation of gender through actions, practices, and performances that give rise to sexed and gendered bodies. The entry also discusses intersections of sex and gender in terms of anthropological studies on masculinities, sexualities, religion, colonialism, and nation‐states

Colonialism · Cultural anthropology · Discipline · Gender analysis · Gender relations · Human sexuality · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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