Doctor/Patient encounters

[Rachel R. Reynolds]

Hello everyone.   About two weeks ago, I sent a query to this listserver
asking if anyone had good citations on gender and communication in South
Asia.  What follows here is a list of responses.  Thanks to everyone who
gave me a hand with this!

Rachel Reynolds
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Gender, Communication and Language in South Asia
(generated from a query on linganth listserver, May 2003)
Repondents included: Jim Wilce, Ellen Contini-Moravia,
Maggie Ronkin, John McCreery
Ahearn, Laura M.
2001   Invitations to Love: Literacy, Love Letters, and Social Change in
Nepal. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Appadurai, Arjun, Frank J. Koram and Margaret Mills.
1991    Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Grima, Benedicte
1992    The Performance of Emotion Among Paxtun Women: "The Misfortunes
Which Have Befallen Me". Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
         [This is an accessible ethnography of communication and a
fascinating ethnographic account of culturally constructed and socially
performed emotions.]

Hall, Kira
1997"Go Suck Your Husband's Sugarcane..." In Queerly Phrased: Language,
Gender, and Sexuality. K. Hall and A. Livia, eds. Pp. 430-460. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.  [Documents how any acceptance or position
hijrasIndian transgendered personshave is won by their own assertions, not
granted by any sort of cultural value such as inclusivism.]

Hall, Kira and O'Donovan, Veronica
1996    "Shifting gender positions among Hindi-speaking hijras". In V.
Bergvall, J. Bing, and A. Freed (eds.), Rethinking Language and Gender
Research: Theory and Practice. Longman

Petievich, Carla. 2001.
2001.   "Rekhti: Impersonating the Feminine in Urdu Poetry". South Asia,
vol. 24. [On one of a number of Indo-Muslim poetries composed by men and
narrated in the feminine voice.]

Raheja, Gloria Goodwin and Gold, Ann Grodzins
1994    Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and kinship in
North India. U of California Press

Riessman, Catherine.
2000    Stigma and everyday resistance practices: Childless women in South
India.  Gender and Society 14 (1): 111-135.

Riessman, Catherine
2001    Positioning gender identity in narratives of infertility: South
Indian women's lives in context. In M. C. Inhorn and F. van Balen, eds.
Infertility Around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness,Gender, and
Reproductive Technologies. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Santhya, Dasvarma.
2002.   Spousal communication on reproductive illness among rural women
Culture, Health & Sexuality  4, no. 2 (2002): 223-236.

Wilce, James M.
1998    Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in
Rural Bangladesh Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, No 21.
[Shows how "complaints" in medical and other domains become opportunities
for resistance to gender hierarchies]

Wilce, James M.
In press        To "speak beautifully" in Bangladesh: Subjectivity as
pagalami. In The Edge of Experience: Culture, Subjectivity, and
Schizophrenia. J. Jenkins and R. Barrett, eds. New York: Cambridge
University Press. [Uncovers gender bending as one of several keys to the
significance of "madness" in Bangladesh]

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