ANT 2310/UGC 265U Gender and Culture
Reading list
Fall 2005
(*= required reading)
Week 1
Anthropological Perspectives of Gender
1. *Bonvillain, Nancy. 2001. Prologue. In Women and Men: Cultural Constructs of Gender. Upper
Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
2. Nanda, Serena. 1993. Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India. In Gender in Cross-cultural
Perspective. Caroline Brettell and Carolyn Sargent, eds. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
3. Messner, Michael. 1987. The Meaning of Success: The athletic experience and the development of
male identity. In The Making of Masculinities: The new men’s studies. Harry Brod, ed. Boston: Allen
and Unwin.
4. *盧蕙馨著. 1999. 第二章婦女人類學. 性屬關係(下). 17 – 34 頁. 臺北: 心理出版社.
Week 2
The Gender Divide
1. *Ortner, Sherry. 1974. Is Female to Male as Nature to Culture? In Woman, Culture and Society.
Stanford: Stanford University Press.
2. *Gilmore, David. 1993. The Manhood Puzzle. In Gender in Cross-cultural Perspective. Caroline
Brettell and Carolyn Sargent, eds. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
3. Chorodow, Nancy. 1974. Family Structure and Feminine Personality. In Woman, Culture and Society.
Stanford: Stanford University Press.
4. 瑪格麗特  米德著. 1999. 性別與氣質. 女性主義經典.65 – 75 頁. 臺北: 女書文化事業.
5. *劉仲冬著. 1999. 第二章 陰陽屬性 男女異行. 性屬關係(上). 27 – 55 頁. 臺北: 心理出
版社.
Week 3
Gender in the Family
1. *Gilmore, David. 1993. Men and Women in Southern Spain: “domestic power” revisited. In The Other
Fifty Percent: multicultural perspectives on gender relations. Mari Womack and Judith Marti, eds.
P.185-200. Prospect Heights: Waveland.
2. *Lamphere, Louise. 1993. The Domestic Sphere of Women and the Public World of Men: The
Strengths and Limitations of an Anthropological Dichotomy. In Gender in Cross-cultural Perspective.
C. Brettell and C. Sargent, eds. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
3. Tam, Siumi Maria. 2004. Marginalized Bodies in Male Space: Hong Kong Men's Mistresses in a
Chinese Special Economic Zone. Paper presented at International Union of Anthropological and
Ethnological Sciences Inter Congress, Kolkata, India,12-15 December 2004.
4. *雅克. 勒穆瓦納著. 1994. 功能與反抗. 華南婚姻制度與婦女地位. 222 - 242 頁。南
寧: 廣西民族出版社.
5. 周華山著. 2001. 第三章 以母系血源爲核心的家. 無父無夫的國度？ 117 - 147 頁. 香
港: 香港同志出版社.
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Week 4
Gender, Power and Economics
1. *Safa, Helen. 1995. Ch.2 The Male Breadwinner and Women’s Wage Labor. In The Myth of the Male
Breadwinner: Women and industrialization in the Carribean. Boulder, Co: Westview.
2. *Williams, Christine. 2004. The Glass Escalator: Hidden advantages for men in the “female”
professions. In Men’s Lives. 6th ed. M Kimmel and M Messner, eds. Boston: Pearson.
3. Soh, C. Sarah. 2004. Aspiring to Craft Modern Gendered Selves: “Comfort women” and Chongsindae
in late colonial Korea. Critical Asian Studies 36 (2): 175-198.
4. Walby, Sylvia. 1997. Ch.7 Gender Politics and Social Theory. In Gender Transformations. London
and New York: Routledge.
5. *蓋兒  魯冰著. 1999. 交易女人：性的「政治經濟學」. 女性主義經典.167– 177 頁.
臺北: 女書文化事業.
6. *凱特  米列著. 1999. 性政治. 女性主義經典. 76 – 86 頁. 臺北: 女書文化事業.
7. 瞿婉文著. 1999. 婦女也是國民嗎？ 女性主義經典. 178– 187 頁. 臺北: 女書文化事業.
Week 5
Gender, Media and Technology
1. *Na, Misu. 2001. The Cultural Construction of the Computer as a Masculine Technology: an analysis
of computer advertisements in Korea. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies 7(3):93-114.
2. *孫秀蕙. 1999. 廣告與兩性。 性屬關係：性別與文化、再現﹙下﹚。王雅各編。臺北：心理出
版社。
3. 林芳玫著. 1996. 媒體陽謀論. 兩性文化 & 社會 135 – 151 頁. 臺北: 心理出版社
4. Cheung, Sidney. 2000. Men, Women and “Japanese” as Outsiders: A case study of postcards with
Ainu images. Visual Anthropology 13:227-255.
Week 6
Film, and exam review
Film: Through Chinese women’s eyes
1. *葉漢明. 1994. 權力的次文化資源：自梳女與姐妹群體。馬建釗、喬健、杜瑞樂編。華南婚姻
制度與婦女地位。廣西民族出版社。
2. *Chan, Eliza. 1997. Jyuht Fohng Neuih: Female Inheritance and Affection. In Hong Kong: The
Anthropology of a Chinese Metropolis. Grant Evans and Maria Tam, eds. Surrey: Curzon.
3. Pun, Ngai. 2005. Marching from the Village: Women’s struggles between work and family. In Made in
China: Women factory workers in a global workplace. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Week 7
Midterm exam (No class)
Week 8
Gender, Language and Space
1. *Bonvillain, Nancy. 2001. Ch.10 Gender and Language. In Women and Men: Cultural Constructs of
Gender. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
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2. *畢恒達著.1999. 性別與空間。性屬關係：性別與文化、再現﹙下﹚。王雅各編。臺北：心理
出版社。
3. 曾雪汶著.2004.性騷擾在香港。香港性別論述 336 –356 頁。
4. 史國良. 1998.走出自己的路--台灣都市的女同志空間與創業。國立台灣大學 性別與空間研究室
同志空間專輯 73-82 頁。
Week 9
The Gendered Body
1. *Bonvillain, Nancy. 2001. Ch.8 Gender and the Body. In Women and Men: Cultural Constructs of
Gender. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
2. *Gruenbaum, Ellen. 1993. The Movement against Clitoridectomy and Infibulation in Sudan: public
health policy and the women’s movement. In Gender in Cross-cultural Perspective. Caroline Brettell
and Carolyn Sargent, eds. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
3. Shilling, Chris. 1993. The Body and Social Inequalities. In The Body and Social Theory. London:
Sage.
4. 袁小燕. 2003. 減肥與身體操控。性別觀察。譚少薇編.香港:麥穗。
5. 陳嘉敏. 2003. 矯形胸圍的魔力。性別觀察。譚少薇編.香港:麥穗。
Week 10
Religion and Gender
1. *Bonvillain, Nancy. 2001. Ch. 9 Gender and Religion. In Women and Men: Cultural Constructs of
Gender. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
2. 李貞德. 1994. 最近中國宗教史研究中的女性問題 。 近代中國婦女史研究 第二期 251-270 頁。
3. *Kapadia, Karin. 1995. Blood across the Stars: astrology and the construction of gender. Siva and Her
Sisters: gender, caste, and class in rural South India. Pp.68-91. Boulder: Westview Press.
4. Ruether, Rosemary Radford. 1999. Feminism in World Christianity. In Feminism and World Religions.
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Week 11
Gender in Simple Societies
1. *Bonvillain, Nancy. 2001. Ch.2 Egalitarian Foraging Societies. In Women and Men: Cultural
Constructs of Gender.Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
2. *Bamberger, Joan. 1974. The Myth of Matriarchy: Why men rule in primitive society. In
Woman, Culture and Society. M. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere, eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
3. Slocum, Sally. 1975. Woman the Gatherer: male bias in anthropology. In Toward an Anthropology of
Women. Rayner Reiter, ed. New York: Monthly Review Press.
Week 12
Gender in Complex Societies
1. *Bonvillain, Nancy. 2001. Ch.6 Industrial Economy: The United States. In Women and Men: Cultural
Constructs of Gender. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
2. Bonvillain, Nancy. 2001. Ch. 5 Agricultural States. In Women and Men: Cultural Constructs of
Gender. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
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3. Tsukaguchi-Le Grand, Toshiko, and Carl Le Grand. 2002. Gender and Employment Policy in Japan:
The Case of University Graduates. Senri Ethnological Studies 62:117-135.
4. 蔡秀美著. 1999. 性別與教育. 性屬關係(上). 225 –251 頁. 臺北: 心理出版社.
5. 蔡寶瓊著. 2004. 教育——回歸社會脈絡的探討. 香港 性別論述. 246 –275 頁. 香港: 牛
津大學出版社.
Week 13
Globalization, Development and Gender
1. *Charlton, Sue Ellen. 1993. Debating the Impact of Development on Women. In Gender in
Cross-cultural Perspective. C. Brettell and C. Sargent, eds. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
2. Chang, Kimberly, and Lily Ling. 2000. Globalization and its Intimate Other: Filipina domestic
workers in Hong Kong. In Gender and Global Restructuring : sightings, sites and resistances.
Marianne H. Marchand and Anne Sisson Runyan, eds. London and New York : Routledge.
3. Bonvillain, Nancy. 2001. Ch. 7 Global Economic Development. In Women and Men: Cultural
Constructs of Gender. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
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