Posts Tagged ‘north’

White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India

Monday, February 8th, 2010
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This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open up new ways of thinking about South Asian social li[Read More]


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Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America

Thursday, February 4th, 2010
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Margaret Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions about menopause. She uses ethnography, interviews, statistics, historical and popular culture materials, and medical publications to produce a richly detailed account of Japanese women's lives. The resul[Read More]


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