02800nam 2200625Ia 450 991080726880332120200520144314.00-8166-8544-4(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 /Kamala Visweswaran1st ed.Minneapolis 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 Kamala1659938MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807268803321Fictions of feminist ethnography4014867UNINA