A Passion for Difference: Essays in Anthropology and Gender - Tapa blanda

a With an unusual commitment to getting ideas across, Moore succeeds in making her writing accessible even to a non--specialist audience. She is successful in this tour de force, engaging with key theorists and providing rich illustrations from her own and othersa anthropological data. ... Each of the seven essays is of interest in its own right ...a . Times Higher Educational Supplement a Once again her writing is intensely personal and her enthusiasm for her subject radiates from the page. ... Her exposition of argument is lucid ... The two final chapters ... are the most impressive in the volume, combining passion with scholarship in a concluding tour de force.a Sociology

In this book Henrietta Moore examines the nature and limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about sex, gender and sexuality.