You see it in every schoolyard: the girls play only with the girls, the boys play only with the
boys. Why? And what do the kids think about this? Breaking with familiar conventions for …

In this innovative study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives
by talking about their possessions--domestic objects used to construct a coherent identity …

There is a story about two small children in a museum standing in front of a painting of Adam
and Eve. One child asks the other,''Which is the man and which is the lady?''The other child …

The ancestral rain forests for the Wopkaimin people have long been a sacred geography, a
place that has allowed them to act out the obligations of the male cult system and social …

Much of the literature on girls and boys growing up assumes that they inhabit, in school and
play, separate, gendered cultures. Similar presuppositions inform much popular advice …

This article argues that 'joking'and 'respect'among the Miskitu of Kakabila in Eastern
Nicaragua are best understood as diametrically opposed performance styles or registers …

Rural-urban migration has helped to fuel Thailand's recent economic boom. Migrants, many
of whom are young and female, constitute a cheap and easily replaceable work force for …

Gender as a category of analysis has proven to be both a useful and dangerous tool in
pointing to the social aspects of women's oppres sion. In this essay I wish to examine how …

This essay investigates Bookchin's account of preliterate societies, out of which he asserts
that domination and hierarchy have emerged, and the ecological claims upon which these …

Our paper conveys some of the ways children in rural Rajasthan, North India, think about
their relationships with the environment, and how these relationships are enacted in their …