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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781009803321

Titolo

Women in anthropology : autobiographical narratives and social history / / edited by Maria G. Cattell and Marjorie M. Schweitzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-41568-2

1-315-41569-0

1-59874-750-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CattellMaria G

SchweitzerMarjorie M

Disciplina

301.092/2

B

Soggetti

Women anthropologists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2006 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Voices of women anthropologists : autobiography, social history, and anthropology / Maria G. Cattell -- Gender roles in sociocultural and historical context / Marjorie M. Schweitzer -- Possessed by anthropology. Possessed by anthropology / Judy Rosenthal -- Changing roles, challenging stereotypes : women's roles in twentieth-century America. From academe to county politics : anthropologist as activist / Eunice Felter Boyer ; An anthropological odyssey : a midlife beginning / Marilyn Preheim Rose ; Born an anthropologist : from a housewife with hobbies to an anthropologist with a passion / Cath Oberholtzer ; Changing roles, challenging irrelevance : my story as a reentry woman / Dorothy M. Castille -- The web of lives : family involvements, career interactions. On becoming an anthropologist / Louanna M. Lackey ; Family involvements : earning a PhD while raising children / Molly G. Schuchat ; Career constraints and enhancements : marriage, family, and age / Ellen C. Rhoads Holmes ; The "A-G-E" effects on my midlife career in anthropology / Esther Skirboll -- Being the other : encounters with difference. A late bloomer's struggles with discrimination / Ruby Rohrlich ; My life hangs by this question : what is a human being? / Elizabeth (Teddy) Dressel Hoobler ; Not my color, not



my kind : lessons in race, class, age, and gender in the academy / M. Jean Harris ; Understanding my life : the dialectics of marketing and anthropology / Barbara Olsen -- Being an anthropologist, living anthropological lives. From prehistory to culture history : my anthropological journey / Marjorie M. Schweitzer ; In pursuit of the word : my anthropological life / Maria Gleaton Cattell ; A lens, a book, and a compass : my anthropological life tour / Jacqueline Walden -- Legacies for future generations. A time for excellence, a legacy for the future / Jane Stevenson Day ; Lessons for today / Marjorie M. Schweitzer.

Sommario/riassunto

Women in academia have struggled for centuries to establish levels of acceptance and credibility equal to men in the same fields, and anthropology has been no different. The women anthropologists in this book speak frankly about their challenges and successes as they navigated through their personal and professional lives. Riding the changing tides of social and disciplinary history, they struggled through various and sometimes conflicting arenas of life-marriage, raising children, caring for families, publishing, conducting research, going into the field, teaching, and mentoring. They di