Feminist Anthropology
Höfundur:
Ellen Lewin (Útgáfa: 1)
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This volume surveys the history of feminist anthropology and offers students and scholars a fascinating collection of both classic and contemporary articles, grouped to highlight key themes from the past and present.
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- Wiley Global Research (STMS)
- 9781119277828
- 9781405101967
- Page Fidelity (PDF)
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- Ellen Lewin
- English
- 2005-12-13
- 100
- 2
- 2
Kaflar
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Discovering Women across Cultures
- Introduction
- 1 Belief and the Problem of Women and the ‘Problem’ Revisited
- 2 A Note on the Division of Labor by Sex
- 3 Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?
- 4 The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘‘Political Economy’’ of Sex
- 5 The Use and Abuse of Anthropology: Reflections on Feminism and Cross-cultural Understanding
- 6 Toward a Unified Theory of Class, Race, and Gender
- Part II Questioning Positionality
- Introduction
- 7 Writing against Culture
- 8 My Best Informant’s Dress: The Erotic Equation in Fieldwork
- 9 Feminist Insider Dilemmas: Constructing Ethnic Identity with Chicana Informants
- 10 Contingent Stories of Anthropology, Race, and Feminism
- Part III Confronting the USA
- Introduction
- 11 Bringing the Family to Work: Women’s Culture on the Shop Floor
- 12 Procreation Stories: Reproduction, Nurturance, and Procreation in Life Narratives of Abortion Act
- 13 Ethnically Correct Dolls: Toying with the Race Industry
- 14 Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic
- Part IV Maintaining Commitments
- Introduction
- 15 Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland Ethnic Violence
- 16 Women’s Rights are Human Rights: The Merging of Feminine and Feminist Interests among El Salvad
- 17 Searching for ‘‘Voices’’: Feminism, Anthropology, and the Global Debates over Female Geni
- 18 Imagining the Unborn in the Ecuadoran Andes
- Part V Interpreting Instability and Fluidity
- Introduction
- 19 ‘‘Like a Mother to Them’’: Stratified Reproduction and West Indian Childcare Workers and
- 20 Femininity and Flexible Labor: Fashioning Class through Gender on the Global Assembly Line
- 21 Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire
- 22 ‘‘What’s Identity Got to Do with It?’’: Rethinking Identity in Light of the Mati Work i
- Index