Gender and Sexuality. The form of an extended review essay of Holly Wardlow’s book ‘Wayward Women’

Summarise the content of the book paying special attention to the main theoretical perspectives and most relevant ethnography. Discuss the books main arguments and content using theories from the course literature and lectures. Your answer must include theory from the books by Mascia-Lees and Black, and Donnan and Magowan, and at least four of the articles from the course. Should also include some discussion of Wardlow’s fieldwork and methods. All quotations in your answer must be clearly identified as such, either within quotation marks or as indented text. Quotations must be referenced. If you use any material from the Internet the full web address must be provided and the date you accessed the material. Apart from any relevant quotations all of the answer must be written in your own words. Your answer must be between 2,000 and 2,500 words in length. Literature: Books Mascia-Lees, Frances and Nancy J Black. 2000. Gender and Anthropology. Waveland Press. Donnan, Hastings and Fiona Magowan. 2010. The Anthropology of Sex. Oxford: Berg. Wardlow, Holly. 2006. Wayward Woman: sexuality and agency in a New Guinea society. Berkeley: University of California Press. Articles and chapters Callender Charles and Lee Kochems. 1983. The North American Berdache. Current Anthropology 24: 443-70. DeWalt, Kathleen M and Billie R. DeWalt. 2011. Participant Observation. A Guide for Fieldworkers, 2nd edition. New York: Altamira Press. Kapitel 6: Gender and Sex Issues in Participant Observation. Elliston, Deborah 1995. Erotic Anthropology: Ritualised homosexuality in Melanesia and Beyond. American Ethnologist, 22 (4): 848-67. Evans-Pritchard, Edward. 1970. Sexual Inversion among the Azande, American Anthropologist 72 (6): 1428-34. Hockey, Jenny and Martin Forsey. 2012. Ethnography Is Not Participant Observation: Reflections on the Interview as Participantory Qualitative Research. In The Interview. An Ethnographic Approach. Skinner, Jonathan (eds). London: Bloomsbury. Hodzic, Saida. 2009 Unsettling power: Domestic violence, gender politics and struggles over sovereignty in Ghana. Ethnos 74 (3). 331-360, Special Issue Transnationalizing Desire. Lamphere, Louise. 2005 The domestic sphere of women and the public sphere of men: strengths and limitations of an anthropological dichotomy. In Caroline Brettell and Carolyn Sargent. Gender in Cross-Cultural perspective. Prentice Hall. MacCormack, Carol 1980. Nature, Gender and Culture, a critique. In Nature, Culture and Gender Carol MacCormack and Marilyn Strathern (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Montgomery, Anne. 2012. Difficult Moments in the Ethnographic Interview: Vulnerability, Silence and Rapport. In The Interview. An Ethnographic Approach. Skinner, Jonathan (eds). London: Bloomsbury. Rubin, Gayle. 1975 The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of sex. In Toward an Anthropology of Women. R Reiter (eds). Monthly review. Slocum, Sally. 2008 [1975]. Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology. In Jon McGee and Richard Warms. Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History, 5th Edition. London: McGraw Hill.