02803nam 2200613Ia 450 991078438530332120230207225601.00-8166-8544-4(CKB)1000000000347167(EBL)310282(OCoLC)614486194(SSID)ssj0000279458(PQKBManifestationID)11229697(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000279458(PQKBWorkID)10260047(PQKB)11514547(MiAaPQ)EBC310282(MdBmJHUP)muse39046(Au-PeEL)EBL310282(CaPaEBR)ebr10151142(CaONFJC)MIL522644(OCoLC)935263947(EXLCZ)99100000000034716719930915d1994 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFictions of feminist ethnography[electronic resource] /Kamala VisweswaranMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc19941 online resource (220 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-2337-6 0-8166-2336-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; A Feminist Fable; 1. Introduction: Fictions of Feminist Ethnography; 2. Defining Feminist Ethnography; 3. Betrayal: An Analysis in Three Acts; 4. Refusing the Subject; 5. Feminist Reflections on Deconstructive Ethnography; 6. Feminist Ethnography as Failure; 7. Identifying Ethnography; 8. Introductions to a Diary; 9. Sari Stories; Glossary; Notes; IndexAlthough feminist ethnography is an emerging genre, the question of what the term means remains open. Recent texts which fall under this rubric rely on unexamined notions of "sisterhood" and the recovery of "lost" voices. In these essays about her work with women in Southern India, Kamala Visweswaran addresses such troubled issues. Blurring distinctions between ethnographic and literary genres, these essays employ the narrative strategies of history, fiction, autobiography and biography, deconstruction, and post-colonial discourse to reveal the fictions of ethnography and the ethnography in fiFeminist anthropologyIndiaWomen anthropologistsAttitudesWomenIndiaSocial conditionsFeminist anthropologyWomen anthropologistsAttitudes.WomenSocial conditions.305.42/0954305.420954Visweswaran Kamala1576812MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784385303321Fictions of feminist ethnography3854888UNINA