Sexual Meanings
The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality

Table of Contents

List of contributors
preface
Introduction: accounting for sexual meanings Sherry B. Ortner and Harriet Whitehead
Part I. The Cultural Organization of Gender:
1. The gender revolution and the transition from bisexual horde to patrilocal band: the origins of gender hierarchy Salvatore Cucchiari
2. The bow and the burden strap: a new look at institutionalized homosexuality in native North America Harriet Whitehead
3. Transforming 'natural' woman: female ritual leaders and gender ideology among Bimin-Kuskusmin Fitz John Porter Poole
4. Self-interest and the social good: some implications of Hagen gender imagery Maralyn Strathern
5. Sexuality and gender in Samoa: conceptions and missed conceptions Bradd Shore
6. Like wounded stags: male sexual ideology in an Analusian town Stanley Brandes
7. Pigs, women, and the men's house in Amazonia: an analysis of six Mundurucú myths Leslee Nadelson
Part II. The Political Contexts of Gender:
8. Politics and gender in simple societies Jane F. Collier and Michelle Z. Rosaldo
9. Women, warriors, and patriarchs Melissa Llewelyn-Davies
10. Gender and sexuality in hierarchical societies: the case of Polynesia and some comparative implications Sherry B. Ortner
Index.