Lewin Feminist Anthropology

A Reader
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5456-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 544 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Anthologies

Feminist Anthropology surveys the history of feministanthropology and offers students and scholars a fascinatingcollection of both classic and contemporary articles, grouped tohighlight key themes from the past and present.
* * Offers vibrant examples of feminist ethnographic work ratherthan synthetic overviews of the field.
* Each section is framed by a theoretical and bibliographicessay.
* Includes a thoughtful introduction to the volume that providescontext and discusses the intellectual "foremothers" ofthe field, including Margaret Mead, Ruth Landes, Phyllis Kaberry,and Zora Neale Hurston.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lewin, Ellen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Ellen Lewin..
Part I. Discovering Women across Cultures.
Introduction.
1. Belief and the Problem of Women and The "Problem" Revisited(Edwin Ardener).
2. A Note on the Division of Labor by Sex (Judith K. Brown).
3. Is Woman to Man as Nature is to Culture? (Sherry Ortner).
4. The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex(Gayle Rubin).
5. The Use and Abuse of Anthropology: Reflections on Feminismand Cross-Cultural Understanding (Michelle Z. Rosaldo).
6. Toward a Unified Theory of Class, Race, and Gender (KarenBrodkin).
Part II. Questioning Positionality.
Introduction.
7. Writing against Culture (Lila Abu-Lughod).
8. My Best Informant's Dress: The Erotic Equation inFieldwork (Esther Newton).
9. Feminist Insider Dilemmas: Construction Ethnic Identity withChicana Informants (Patricia Zavella).
10. Contingent Stories of Anthropology, Race, and Feminism(Paulla Ebron).
Part III. Interpreting Instability and Fluidity.
Introduction.
11. Bringing the Family to Work: Women's Culture on theShop Floor (Louise Lamphere).
12. Procreation Stories: Reproduction, Nurturance, andProcreation in Life Narratives of Abortion Activists (FayeGinsburg).
13. Ethnically Correct Dolls: Toying with the Race Industry(Elizabeth Chin).
14. Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic(Charis Thompson).
Part IV. Maintaining Commitments.
Introduction.
15. Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender inNorthern Ireland (Begoña Aretxaga).
16. Women's Rights are Human Rights: The Merging ofFeminine and Feminist: Interests among El Salvador's Mothersof the Disappeared (CO-MADRES) (Lynn Stephen).
17. Searching for "Voices: Feminism, Anthropology, and theGlobal Debates over Female Genital Operations (Christine J.Walley).
18. Imagining the Unborn in the Ecuadoran Andes (Lynn M.Morgan).
Part V. Interpreting Instability and Fluidity.
Introduction.
19. "Like a Mother to Them": Stratified Reproduction and WestIndian Childcare Workers and Employers in New York (ShelleeColen).
20. Femininity and Flexible Labor: Fashioning Class throughGender on the Global Assembly Line (Carla Freeman).
21. Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and EroticDesire (Evelyn Blackwood).
22 "What's Identity Got to Do with It?" RethinkingIdentity in Light of the Mati Work (Gloria Wekker).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Ellen Lewin is Professor of Women's Studies and Anthropology, The University of Iowa.