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Control and Subversion: Gender Relations in Tajikistan
Colette Harris
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Description for Control and Subversion: Gender Relations in Tajikistan
Paperback. Explores gender relations in Muslim societies, using post-Soviet Tajikistan as a central case-study. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FCD; JFSJ; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 338.
Control and Subversion investigates the relationship of gender to the inner workings of social control, such as exposing ways in which post-Soviet Tajikistan society threatens men’s masculinity, thereby bringing them to force family members into conformity, irrespective of the suffering this may cause.
Told through ethnographically collected life histories, the book examines how masculine and feminine gender characteristics influence personal relationships and explores gender relations at their most intimate - from the secret musings of adolescent girls, through the painful experiences of young men, to the trauma of sexual initiation.
Although largely ... Read more
Control and Subversion investigates the relationship of gender to the inner workings of social control, such as exposing ways in which post-Soviet Tajikistan society threatens men’s masculinity, thereby bringing them to force family members into conformity, irrespective of the suffering this may cause.
Told through ethnographically collected life histories, the book examines how masculine and feminine gender characteristics influence personal relationships and explores gender relations at their most intimate - from the secret musings of adolescent girls, through the painful experiences of young men, to the trauma of sexual initiation.
Although largely ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Anthropology, Culture and Society
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745321677
SKU
V9780745321677
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About Colette Harris
Colette Harris is a researcher specialising in gender and development, with particular interests in family relations, sexuality and domestic violence. She is currently program director, women in international development at the Office of International Research, Education and Development of Virginia Tech University in the States.
Reviews for Control and Subversion: Gender Relations in Tajikistan
'I am deeply impressed. This is a solid, original ethnography from a little studied part of the world'
Thomas Eriksen 'Colette is an amazing person and I cannot imagine how she did the work she reports on'
Professor Janet Momsen, Dept of Human & Community Development, Uni of California
Thomas Eriksen 'Colette is an amazing person and I cannot imagine how she did the work she reports on'
Professor Janet Momsen, Dept of Human & Community Development, Uni of California