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Preface
Note to Instructors
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Key Concepts
PROFILE: Save the Girl Child Movement
Nolwazi Nadia Ncube
Chapter 2: Key Perspectives
Nadine T. Fernandez and Katie Nelson
Chapter 3: Introducing the Region
Ina Goel
PROFILE: Blank Noise: Street Actions and Digital Interventions Against Street Sexual Harassment In India
Hemangini Gupta
PROFILE: Vietnam Women’s Shelter: Contradictions and Complexities
Lynn Kwiatkowski
Chapter 4: Controlling National Borders by Controlling Reproduction
Dannah Dennis and Abha Lal
Chapter 5: Understanding Caste and Kinship within Hijras, a “Third” Gender Community in India
Chapter 6: The “City” and “The Easy Life”: Work and Gender among Sherpa in Nepal
Alba Castellsagué and Silvia Carrasco
Chapter 7: Latin America: Introducing the Region
Ana Marina Tzul Tzul and Serena Cosgrove
PROFILE: The Guatemalan Women’s Group: Supporting Survivors of Gender-Based Violence
Serena Cosgrove and Ana Marina Tzul Tzul
Chapter 8: Being a Good Mexican Man by Embracing “Erectile Dysfunction”
Emily Wentzell
Chapter 9: Intersectionality and Normative Masculinity in Northeast Brazil
Melanie A. Medeiros
Chapter 10: Mexico’s Antipoverty Program Oportunidades and the Shifting Dynamics of Citizenship for Ñuu Savi (Mixtec) Village Women
Holly Dygert
Chapter 11: Q’eqchi’-Maya Women: Memory, Markets, and Multilevel Marketing in Guatemala
S. Ashley Kistler
Chapter 12: The Caribbean: Introducing the Region
Nadine T. Fernandez
Chapter 13: Quinceañeras: Girls’ Coming-of-Age Parties in Contemporary Havana, Cuba
Heidi Härkönen
Chapter 14: Jamaican Realities of Masculinities and Sexualities: “How Far Have We Come since Michel Foucault?”
Natasha Kay Mortley and Keino T. Senior
Chapter 15: The Global North: Introducing the Region
Lara Braff and Katie Nelson
PROFILE: Indian Rights for Indian Women: Kathleen Steinhauer, an Indigenous Activist in Canada
Sarah Quick
Chapter 16: Mothers Acting up Online
Susan W. Tratner
Chapter 17: Male Sex Work in Canada: Intersections of Gender and Sexuality
Nathan Dawthorne
Chapter 18: Intersectionality and Muslim Women in Belgium
Elsa Mescoli
Chapter 19: Fatherhood and Family Relations in Transnational Migration from Mezcala, Mexico
Elizabeth Pérez Márquez
Contributors
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