"Chopsticks only work in pairs" : gender unity and gender equality among the Lahu of southwest China, Shanshan Du

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"Chopsticks only work in pairs" : gender unity and gender equality among the Lahu of southwest China, Shanshan Du

Title remainder

gender unity and gender equality among the Lahu of southwest China

Statement of responsibility

Shanshan Du

Instantiates

• "Chopsticks only work in pairs" : gender unity and gender equality among the Lahu of southwest China

Publication

• New York, Columbia University Press, c2002

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-230) and index

Contents

• "Everything Comes in Pairs": A Dyadic Worldview
• Chapter 2
• Husband-Wife Dyads in the Life Cycle
• Part II
• Joint Gender Roles
• Chapter 3
• "Husband and Wife Do It Together": Unifying Gender in Labor
• Chapter 4
• "Male-Female Masters": Husband-Wife Dyads in Leadership
• Part III
• Is There Any Gender-Egalitarian Society on Earth?
• Structure and Antistructure
• Chapter 5
• Unifying Gender in Kinship and Interhousehold Organization
• Chapter 6
• The Dysfunction and Collapse of Gender Dyads: Divorce, Elopement, and Love-Pact Suicide
• Conclusion: Rethinking Gender Equality
• Gender Equality as Social Reality
• The Cultural Particularity of Gender Equality
• The Diversity of Gender Equality
• The Lahu People
• Fieldwork Sites
• Project Development and Methods
• The Aim and Organization of the Book
• Part I
• Mythology and Ideology
• Chapter 1

Control code

49824757

Dimensions

24 cm.

Extent

xvii, 237 p.

Isbn

9780231119566

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(cloth : alk. paper)

Lccn

2002071515

Other physical details

ill., maps

System control number

• (OCoLC)ocm49824757
• 706796