Sherry Ortner's essays, written over a span of twenty-five years, rekindled memories of
graduate school debates. The collection brings her earlier writings together with her more …

Making Gender is both retrospective and forwardlooking, an anthology that functions as
theoretical compendium, ethnographical exploration, and intellectual autobiography. The seven …

The inciting debate behind Sherry Ortner's Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture
is lodged within its title-specifically, in the word" making." A feminist anthropologist whose …

… As Ortner herself says in the first chapter," making" has a double meaning. Discussing the
application of practice theory to gender stud-ies, she notes that" construct" theorists such as …

… Ortner makes perfectly clear in Making Gender's opening and concluding chapters that
she is very much alive to the poststructuralist challenges to the category "woman," to the …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 EROTICS & POLITICS This book aims to provide an interface
between the study of sexuality and gender, and in particular between gay men’s studies and …

… and desire in early modern culture. Recent studies of Renaissance … of gender reversal:
Erotic Politics widens the arena of debate to study the structure and cultural definition of erotic …

… cultural studies perspectives. Thus, rather than make a sharp distinction between anthropology
and cultural studies… In foregrounding the relationship between pleasure and politics in the …

… Sherry Ortner's Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture is a graceful model of
how thoughts evolve and how scholars grow. This collection of essays (three new, five drawn …