{"product_id":"making-gender-isbn-9780807046333","title":"Making Gender","description":"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. \u003ci\u003eMaking Gender\u003c\/i\u003e is rich in theoretical insights and ethnographic examples, offering a stimulating synthesis of the field by one of its founders and foremost theorists.A tour-de-force journey through both the work of an outstanding anthropologist and the history of a field. \u003cbr\u003e-Rayna Rapp, editor of \u003ci\u003eToward an Anthropology of Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] engaging book. . . . Sherry B. Ortner is well known among anthropologists for having her finger on the pulse of the discipline. . . . [\u003ci\u003eMaking Gender is\u003c\/i\u003e] a fine example of the way anthropology helps us to think about ourselves.\" --Tanya Luhrmann, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To have [Ortner's] brilliant writings gathered together in one volume, along with an introduction that is sure to move even further our understanding of gender, is a gift to all of us.\" --Nancy J. Chodorow, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Reproduction of Mothering\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Even those familiar with Ortner's more widely read essays will want to reread these next to her more recent writing to understand some of the important changes in feminist anthropology in the last twenty years.\" --Louise Lamphere, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eWoman, Culture, and Society\u003c\/i\u003eSherry B. Ortner is professor of anthropology at Columbia University. Her books include \u003ci\u003eHigh Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCulture\/Power\/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (coedited with Nicholas B. Dirks and Geoff Eley). She received a MacArthur Award in 1990 for her work in anthropology.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304700694757,"sku":"NP9780807046333","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807046333.jpg?v=1767732163","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/making-gender-isbn-9780807046333","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}