Stanford was one of the birthplaces of feminist anthropology, and the Department continues that tradition with a strong focus on issues of gender and sexuality. Sylvia Yanagisako has published extensively on gender and kinship, gender and ethnicity, and gender and capitalism. Barbara Voss has published widely on the application of queer theory to archaeological methodologies, both in her own research and in collaborative publications with archaeologists from around the globe. Lochlann Jain’s research addresses the way that constructions of gender and sexuality shape the experience of cancer in the contemporary US. Miyako Inoue works on the relationship between language and gender. Matthew Kohrman has research the cultural construction of masculinity and its effects both on social experiences of disability and the marketing of cigarettes, especially in China. Meskell has published on gender, sexuality and embodiment in Ancient Egypt and in Neolithic Anatolia. Angela Garcia works on the complex ways poverty, addiction and incarceration disproportionately affect women and their extended kin networks in the US and Mexico. James Holland Jones works on the behavioral epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections, especially HIV-1. His research also addresses two-sex problems in demography, particularly the impact of mortality biases on the dynamics of marriage and gender equity. Duana Fullwiley has researched how people's claims to suffer from the recessive sickle cell trait are highly gendered in Dakar. She shows how women embody their carrier status as an actual disease in order to situate their economic and social stresses within a family nexus of dis-order. She details how women also biologize their suffering for aesthetic value in a context where displaying symptoms of "modern," non-threatening diseases can seem "feminine," or carry sex appeal. Rebecca Bird focuses on the ecology and economics of gender differences in productive labor, asking how social forces (competition for prestige, social exchange, symbolic communication, and economic cooperation) create differential tradeoffs and payoffs for men and women to pursue different economic tasks in different environments. She's published extensively on the importance of paying attention to the way that men and women gain social capital and communicate symbolic information about themselves (via costly signaling) through subsistence production.