Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective

(NOTE: Eachnew reading is bolded and indicated with an asterisk.) I. BIOLOGY, GENDER, AND HUMAN EVOLUTION. Animal Models and Gender, Marlene Zuk. Role of Women in Human Evolution, Margaret Ehrenberg. Gender and War: Are Women Tough Enough for Military Combat? Lucinda J. Peach. Lifeboat Ethics: Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil, Nancy Scheper-Hughes. Cultural Nexus of Aka Father-Infant Bonding, Barry S. Hewlett. II. GENDER AND PREHISTORY. Gender in Prehistory: An Archaeological Challenge, Margaret W. Conkey. Where Have All the Menstrual Huts Gone? Invisibility of Menstrual Seclusion in the Late Prehistoric Southeast, Patricia Galloway. Maya Royal Women: A Lesson in Pre-Columbian History, Davis Freidel and Stanley Guenter. III. DOMESTIC WORLDS AND PUBLIC WORLDS. Domestic Sphere of Women and the…