07 On Anthropology and Gender

What is the underlying explanation for gender inequality in each piece? What is the role of power in the construction of gendered identities?

Most of these pieces privilege etic understandings of gender and do not closely attend to how people in a community understand their gendered experiences. How does considering emic understandings of gender enrich and/or trouble these analyses?

How are these pieces in conversation with each other? What assumptions do they hold in common, and where do they diverge?