Download or read book Making Gender written by Sherry B Ortner and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1997-10-31 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of new and previously published essays, Sherry Ortner draws on her more than two decades of work in feminist anthropology to offer a major reconsideration of culture and gender. Making Gender is rich in theoretical insights and ethnographic examples, offering a stimulating synthesis of the field by one of its founders and foremost theorists.