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The Abject Body and Subversive Femininity --Stepping on the Black Box: Kinesthetic Experience and the Transformation of Body Size --"Would You Do It?": Doing the Scholarly Striptease for Academic Gain --Reading the Body: Consuming the Feminist Scholar --Reading Pink: The Beauty Persuasion --Thinking and Rethinking Tails, Tales, and Tellings.

In Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination Holning Lau offers an incisive review of the conceptual questions that arise as legal systems around the world grapple with whether and how to protect people against sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination. Readership: All interested in LGBT rights (i.e., SOGI rights). This audience ranges from students to seasoned LGBT rights experts who specialize in a particular country/region and are seeking to learn about other parts of the world.

"She/he/they/them. Why do we use gender pronouns? And why do some people wish to be referred to as "they"? What is gender identity all about? Students will learn to understand these terms and the reasons behind them. They will also learn how to deal with questions they may have about gender identity"--

Intro -- Foreword -- 1 The Origins of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity -- Gender Roles -- Transgender -- Homosexuality -- Close-up: Intersex -- 2 Born Gay: Biological Theories of Homosexuality -- A Quick Lesson in Genetics -- Genetics and Homosexuality -- Close-up: Homosexuality in the Animal Kingdom -- Prenatal Influences -- Born That Way -- 3 Becoming Gay: Psychological Theories of Homosexuality -- Homosexuality as a "Mental Disorder" -- Close-up: APA Rejects Conversion Therapy -- Interacting Causes -- 4 Why Does It Matter? -- Homosexuality and Legal Rights -- Religion and Homosexuality -- Close-up: Christian Acceptance of Gay Nature -- Love -- Series Glossary -- Further Resources -- Index.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Prologue -- Contributors' Biographies -- Introducing Gender, Identity and Reproduction -- Section I Representing Reproduction -- Introduction -- 1 Representations of Motherhood -- 2 Loving Fathers or Deadbeat Dads: The Crisis of Fatherhood in Popular Culture -- 3 Battle of the Gametes: Cultural Representations of 'Medically' Assisted Conception -- Summary -- Section II Reproductive Encounters: Cooperation and Negotiation -- Introduction -- 4 Birth Matters: Learning from My Past - A Midwifery for the Future -- 5 Your Dignity is Hung Up at the Door: Pakistani and White Women's Experiences of Childbirth -- 6 The Quintessential Female Act? Learning about Birth -- 7 Dutch Midwives: The Difference between Image and Reality -- 8 Is Breast Best? Breastfeeding, Motherhood and Identity -- Summary -- Section III Reproductive Identities: Exclusion and Resistance -- Introduction -- 9 Woe the Women: DES, Mothers and Daughters -- 10 I didn't Think Much of his Bedside Manner but he was very Skilled at his Job: Medical Encounters in Relation to 'Infertility' -- 11 Cutting Out Motherhood: Childfree Sterilized Women -- 12 Changing Women: An Analysis of Difference and Diversity in Women's Accounts of their Experiences of Menopause -- Summary -- 13 Reflecting on Reproduction -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- Amelia M. Trevelyan and Lowell S. Gustafson -- One: Multiplicity and Discourse in Maya Gender Relations 11 -- Marvin Cohodas -- Two: Shared Gender Relations: Early Mesoamerica and the Maya 55 -- Lowell S. Gustafson -- Three: Household and State in Pre-Hispanic Maya Society: Gender, Identity, and Practice 75 -- Julia A. Hendon -- Four: The Gendered Architecture of Uxmal 93 -- Amelia M. Trevelyan and Heather W. Forbes -- Five: Mother/Father Kings 141 -- Lowell S. Gustafson -- Six: Corn Deities and the Male/Female Principle 169 -- Karen Bassie-Sweet -- Seven: The Popol Vuh and the Decline of Maya Women's Status 191 -- Beatriz Barba de Pina Chan -- Eight: A Divine Couple's Gender Roles in the Setting of the Earth at Palenque 227 -- Maria Elena Bernal-Garcia -- Nine: Holy Mother Earth and Her Flowery Skirt: The Role of the Female Earth Surface in Maya Political and Ritual Performance 281 -- Carolyn E. Tate -- Ten: Female and Male: The Ideology of Balance and Renewal in Elite Costuming among the Classic Period Maya 319 -- F. Kent Reilly -- Eleven: Desiring Women: Classic Maya Sexualities 329 -- Rosemary A. Joyce

This volume examines the significance of food-centered activities to gender relations and the construction of gendered identities across cultures. It examines how each gender's relationship towards food may facilitate mutual respect or produce gender hierarchy