Gendered Lives: Global Issues

Preface

Textbook Learning Objectives
Note to Instructors
Acknowledgments

PART I: INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1: Key Concepts
Katie Nelson and Nadine T. Fernandez

PROFILE: Save the Girl Child Movement
Nolwazi Ncube

Chapter 2: Key Perspectives
Nadine T. Fernandez and Katie Nelson

PART II: SOUTH ASIA

Chapter 3: South Asia: Introducing the Region
Ina Goel

PROFILE: Blank Noise: Street Actions and Digital
Interventions against Street Sexual Harassment in India
Hemangini Gupta

PROFILE: Vietnam Women’s Shelter: Contradictions and
Complexities
Lynn Kwiatkowski

Chapter 4: Controlling National Borders by Controlling Reproduction:
Gender, Nationalism, and Nepal’s Citizenship Laws 
Dannah Dennis and Abha Lal

Chapter 5: Understanding Caste and Kinship within Hijras,
a “Third” Gender Community in India
Ina Goel

Chapter 6: The “City” and “The Easy Life”:
Work and Gender among Sherpa in Nepal
Alba Castellsagué and Silvia Carrasco

PART III: LATIN AMERICA

Chapter 7: Latin America: Introducing the Region
Serena Cosgrove and Ana Marina Tzul Tzul

PROFILE: The Guatemalan Women’s Group:
Supporting Survivors of Gender-Based Violence
Serena Cosgrove and Ana Marina Tzul Tzul

Chapter 8: Being a Good Mexican Man by Embracing
“Erectile Dysfunction”
Emily Wentzell

Chapter 9: Intersectionality and Normative Masculinity in Northeast Brazil
Melanie A. Medeiros

Chapter 10: Mexico’s Antipoverty Program Oportunidades
and the Shifting Dynamics of Citizenship for Ñuu Savi (Mixtec) Village Women
Holly Dygert

Chapter 11: Q’eqchi’-Maya Women:
Memory, Markets, and Multilevel Marketing in Guatemala
S. Ashley Kistler