| 1 | Introduction to the study of family, sexuality and gender | No readings |
| Part I: Concepts and Themes |
| 2 | Is sex to gender as nature is to culture? |
 Hubbard, Ruth. "Rethinking Women's Biology." In The Politics of Women's Biology. Rutgers University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780813514901.
Fausto-Sterling, Anne. "The Five Sexes." The Sciences (March/April 1993): 20-24.
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| 3 | Cultural acquisition of gender as learned behavior |
Thorne, Barrie. "Children and Gender: Constructions of Difference." In Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference. Edited by Deborah L. Rhode. Yale University Press, 1992, pp. 100-113. ISBN: 9780300052251. Le, Huynh-Nhu. "Never Leave Your Little One Alone: Raising an Ifaluk Child." In A World of Babies: Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies. Edited by Judy S. DeLoache and Alma Gottlieb. Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 199-222. ISBN: 9780521664752. Diener, Marissa. "A Gift from the Gods: A Balinese Guide to Early Child Rearing." In A World of Babies: Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies. Edited by Judy S. DeLoache and Alma Gottlieb. Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 91-116. ISBN: 9780521664752.
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| Part II: Family, Sex, and Gender as Social Institutions |
| 4 | Ascribed status, arranged marriage, inheritance and gendered divisions of labor in pastoral and agrarian societies |
Abu-Lughod, Lila. "Preface" and "Polygyny." In Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories. University of California Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780520256514. Kandiyoti, Deniz. "Bargaining with Patriarchy." Gender and Society 2, no. 3 (1988): 274-290. ( PDF - 4.1MB)
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| 5 | Achieved status, wage labor, and gendered divisions of labor in capitalist societies |
Collier, Jane. "From Mary to Modern Woman." American Ethnologist 13, no. 1 (1986): 100-107. Beeton, Isabella. Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management. London, 1861. Excerpted from pp. iii, 1-9. Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Deirdre English. "Introduction: The Romantic Solution." In For Her Own Good: 150 Years of Experts' Advice to Women. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1989, pp. 1-29. ISBN: 9780385126519.
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| 6 |
Gender, agency, and virtue
Film: Beauty Academy of Kabul
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[MMM] pp. 1-101. Abu-Lughod, Lila. "The Romance of Resistance." American Ethnologist 17, no. 1 (1990): 41-55.
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| 7 | Social reproduction: Reproducing formal and informal class relations |
Rapp, Rayna. "Family and Class in Contemporary America: Notes Toward an Understanding of Ideology." In Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions. Edited by Barrie Thorne and Marilyn Yalolm. Northeastern, 1992, pp. 25-39. ISBN: 9781555531454. Nakano Glenn, Evelyn. "From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor." In Unequal Sisters: An Inclusive Reader in US Women's History. Edited by Vicki Ruiz. Routledge, 2007, pp. 436-459. ISBN: 9780415958400.
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| 8 | The racial economy of social reproduction |
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Perrette. "Maid in L.A." and "Tell Me What, But Not How." In Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadow of Affluence. University of California Press, 2007, pp. 29-60 and 137-170. ISBN: 9780520251717. Flannigan, Caitlin. "How Serfdom Saved the Women's Movement: Dispatches from the Nanny Wars." The Atlantic Monthly, March 2004.
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| 9 | Household dependencies | [Nuclear] pp. 1-22, 2 of the case studies (chapters 2-5), and pp. 155-181. |
| 10 | Doing, undoing, redoing the gendered division of labor |
DeVault, Marjorie. "Conflict and Deference." In Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work. University of Chicago Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780226143606. Sullivan, Maureen. "Undoing the Gender Division of Labor." In The Family of Woman: Lesbian Mothers, Their Children, and the Undoing of Gender. University of California Press, 2004, pp. 93-123. ISBN: 9780520239647.
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| 11 | The invention of sexuality-based identities |
Katz, Jonathan Ned. "The Invention of Heterosexuality." Socialist Review 20, no. 1 (1990): 7-33. (PDF) Davis, Maxine. "The Importance of Sexual Harmony." In The Sexual Responsibility of Women. 1966, pp. 22-36. Rich, Adrienne. "Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Lesbian Continuum." In Women—Sex and Sexuality. Edited by Catharine Stimpson. University of Chicago Press, 1981, pp. 62-91. ISBN: 9780226774770.
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| Part III: Family and Kinship as Cultural Systems |
| 12 | Kinship |
Hart, C. W. M. "Tiwi Marriage." In The Tiwi of North Australia. Harcourt College Pub, 1987, pp. 11-33. ISBN: 9780030120190. Schneider, David. "Relatives" and "The Family." In American Kinship: A Cultural Account. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980, pp. 21-54. ISBN: 9780226739304.
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| 13 | De-essentializing the family | Collier, Jane, Michelle Rosaldo, and Sylvia Yanagisako. "Is there a Family? New Anthropological Views." In Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions. Edited by Barrie Thorne and Marilyn Yalolm. Northeastern, 1992, pp. 25-39. ISBN: 9781555531454. |
| 14 | Do Western sexual identities travel? | [Wayward] pp. 1-98. |
| 15 | Violence and agency | [Wayward] pp. 99-238. |
| 16 | De-essentializing motherhood |
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. "Lifeboat Ethics." In The Gender/Sexuality Reader. Edited by Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo. Routledge, 1997, pp. 82-88. ISBN: 9780415910057. Tsing, Anna. "Monster Stories: Women Charged with Perinatal Endangerment." In Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture. Edited by Faye Ginsburg and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992, pp. 282-299. ISBN: 9780807046135. Landsman, Gail Landsman. "'Real Motherhood', Class, and Children with Disabilities." In Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Sexuality, Nationalism. Edited by France Winndance Twine and Helena Ragoné. Routledge, 2000, pp. 169-187. ISBN: 9780415921107.
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| 17 | Circulation of children |
Howell, Signe. "Kinning: The Creation of Life Trajectories in Transnational Adoptive Families." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 9 (2003): 465-484. Leinaweaver, Jessica B. "On Moving Children: The Social Implications of Andean Child Circulation." American Ethnologist 34, no. 1 (2007): 163-180.
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| 18 | Implications of gender and kinship for conception and birth |
Inhorne, Marcia. "Missing Motherhood: Infertility, Technology, and Poverty in Egyptian Women's Lives." Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Sexuality, Nationalism. Edited by France Winndance Twine and Helena Ragoné. Routledge, 2000, pp. 139-168. ISBN: 9780415921107. Van Hollen, Cecilia. "Invoking Vali: Painful Technologies of Modern Birth in South India." Medical Anthropology Quarterly 17, no. 1 (2003): 49-77.
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| 19 | Implications of gender and kinship for conception and birth and for family planning |
Ginsburg, Faye Ginsburg. "Procreation Stories: Reproduction, Nurturance, and Procreation in Life Narratives of Abortion Activists." American Ethnologist 14 (1987): 623-636. [MMM] Chapter 3.
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| 20 | Viewing of the film The Pill
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| 21 | Nationalism and gendered citizenship | [MMM] Chapter 4. |
| 22 | Reproductive technologies |
[MMM] Chapter 5. Teman, Elly. "Embodying Surrogate Motherhood: Pregnancy as a Dyadic Body-Project." Body and Society 15, no. 3 (2009): 47-69.
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| 23 | Rethinking relatedness |
Thompson, Charis. "Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic." In Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies. Edited by Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002, pp. 175-202. ISBN: 9780822327967. Lewin, Ellen. "Something Inside Me: Gay Fathers and Nature." In Gay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America. University of Chicago Press, 2009, pp. 76-97. ISBN: 9780226476582. Becker, Gay. "Deciding Whether to Tell Children about Donor Insemination: An Unresolved Question in the United States." In Infertility Around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and Reproductive Technologies. Edited by Marcia C. Inhorn and Frank van Balen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, pp. 119-133. ISBN: 9780520231375.
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