The study of women in twentieth-century China has expanded so quickly in the past two
decades that a state-of-the-field survey becomes outdated in the time that it takes to …

Slightly more males are born in the world than females. But because male mortality is
usually greater, in old age groups there are many more women than men. The situation is …

Mind perception entails ascribing mental capacities to other entities, whereas moral
judgment entails labeling entities as good or bad or actions as right or wrong. We suggest …

Do labor market opportunities for women affect marriage and fertility decisions? We
provided three years of recruiting services to help young women in randomly selected rural …

In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors
Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the …

A landmark publication in the social sciences, Linda Lindsey's Gender is the most
comprehensive textbook to explore gender sociologically, as a critical and fundamental …

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama made his now-famous pronouncement that because" the major
alternatives to liberal democracy had exhausted themselves," history as we knew it had …

IntroductIon reconceiving Middle Eastern Manhood this book is a tribute to Middle Eastern
men such as Hamza, my driver in Lebanon, whose stories never make it to the front pages of …

Son preference has persisted in the face of sweeping economic and social changes in the
countries studied here. We attribute this persistence to their similar family systems, which …

Sex‐based discrimination has resulted in severe demographic imbalances between males
and females, culminating in a large number of “missing women” in several countries around …