Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture

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Beacon Press, Oct 31, 1997 - Social Science - 288 pages
In this collection of new and previously published essays, Sherry Ortner draws on her more than two decades of work in feminist anthropology to offer a major reconsideration of culture and gender. Making Gender is rich in theoretical insights and ethnographic examples, offering a stimulating synthesis of the field by one of its founders and foremost theorists.

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About the author (1997)

Sherry B. Ortner is professor of anthropology at Columbia University. Her books include High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism and Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory (coedited with Nicholas B. Dirks and Geoff Eley). She received a MacArthur Award in 1990 for her work in anthropology.

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Title Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture
Author Sherry B Ortner
Edition reprint
Publisher Beacon Press, 1997
ISBN 0807046337, 9780807046333
Length 288 pages
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