The Performance of Gender presents a vivid description of everyday life in order to explore the concept of performance for an anthropology of gender. A detailed and evocotive account of the lives of men and women in a South Indian fishing community reveals new ways of framing gender relations, the body and kinship. The ethnographic account is set within the context of social and cultural theory, notably the ideas of Judith Butler, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault. The study sheds new light on the ways in which gender is understood as both performative, that is enacted through everyday practices, and also substantial and embodied, that is marked out in the separate sexual fluids and procreative capacities of husbands and wives.
Also available in hardback, 9780485195712 GBP55.00 (January, 2000)About the AuthorCecilia Busby is Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths College.
Book InformationISBN 9780485196719
Author Cecilia BusbyFormat Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint The Athlone PressPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g