On Aug 21, 2011, at 7:47 PM, Samuel Wagar wrote:
> A fascinating recent cross-cultural comparison of marriage and
> family values (I won't post my full review because it's tangential
> to this list) that works through gay male families in Hollywood,
> polygamist families in Africa and America (and gay families in
> South Africa), and the Mosuo is Judith Stacey "Unhitched : Love,
> Marriage and Family Values from West Hollywood to Western
> China" (NYU Press, 2011). An ethnography of the Mosuo is Cai Hua
> (trans Asti Hustvedt) "A Society Without Husbands or Fathers : the
> Na of China" (NY: Urzone / Zone Books, 2001) - originally published
> in French in 1997 by Presses Universitaires de France.
Someone had better tell Carol Christ. She needs better evidence
while she bangs the "peaceful ancient matriarchy" drum:
<http://blog.chasclifton.com/?p=3098>
Chas
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