Transgressing Borders: Critical Perspectives on Gender, Household, and Culture

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Transgressing Borders goes beyond conventional popularized notions of the household, gender, and family by destabilizing their boundaries and challenging the codes that govern people's lives. This edited collection introduces readers to recent debates on familial politics, gendered spaces, nation and community, and household economies. Chapters present a range of theoretical approaches and ethnographic case studies that highlight the inter-relationships of gender, power, and culture. This volume is of interest to students and scholars in comparative sociology, anthropology, and cultural and family studies.

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[P]rovocative collection....the collection makes a salient contribution to the current debates on globalization by highlighting the relationship between individual lifeworlds and more general feminist and sociological claims about globalization. [T]he volume does a good job of presenting the multidimensionality of peoples in terms of the social construction of family and households....[T]he chapters contained in this collection present a range of theoretical approaches and ethnographic case studies accessible to and highly recommended for both upper-division undergraduate and graduate audiences in courses that examine the inter-relationships between gender, power, and culture. The volume would be of particular interest to students in comparative sociology, cultural, gender, and family studies.-The Great Plains Sociologist
"Provocative collection....the collection makes a salient contribution to the current debates on globalization by highlighting the relationship between individual lifeworlds and more general feminist and sociological claims about globalization. The volume does a good job of presenting the multidimensionality of peoples in terms of the social construction of family and households....The chapters contained in this collection present a range of theoretical approaches and ethnographic case studies accessible to and highly recommended for both upper-division undergraduate and graduate audiences in courses that examine the inter-relationships between gender, power, and culture. The volume would be of particular interest to students in comparative sociology, cultural, gender, and family studies."-The Great Plains Sociologist
"[P]rovocative collection....the collection makes a salient contribution to the current debates on globalization by highlighting the relationship between individual lifeworlds and more general feminist and sociological claims about globalization. [T]he volume does a good job of presenting the multidimensionality of peoples in terms of the social construction of family and households....[T]he chapters contained in this collection present a range of theoretical approaches and ethnographic case studies accessible to and highly recommended for both upper-division undergraduate and graduate audiences in courses that examine the inter-relationships between gender, power, and culture. The volume would be of particular interest to students in comparative sociology, cultural, gender, and family studies."-The Great Plains Sociologist

Author Bio

SUZAN ILCAN is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor. She is the author of recent essays on gender, power, and cultural relations, and coeditor with Barbara Gabriel of Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject (forthcoming). LYNNE PHILLIPS is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor. Her previous publications include Ethnographic Feminisms (1995) coedited with Sally Cole, and The Third Wave of Modernization in Latin America: Cultural Perspective on Neoliberalism (1997).