Gender Goes Global: Women's Lives in Transnational Perspective

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JEANNE MARECEK is the Wm. Rand Kenan Professor of Psychology and a member of the Women's Studies Program at Swarthmore College. Her publications include Making a Difference: Psychology and the Construction of Gender (with Rachel Hare-Mustin; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990) and “On the Construction of Gender, Sex, and Sexualities” (with Mary Crawford and Danielle Popp) in The Psychology of Gender, edited by Alice Eagly, Robert Sternberg, and Anne Beall (New York: Guilford, 2004). She is coeditor with Michelle Fine of the book series “Qualitative Studies in Psychology” for New York University Press.

Notes

1 Sri Lanka has a number of distinct ethnic communities. Sinhalese people constitute the largest, with about 84 percent of the population.

2 Hereinafter, I indicate individual selections from Situated Lives by the chapter author's name and (SL).

3 These quotes are taken from the book jacket.