Feminist anthropology : a reader / / edited by Ellen Lewin

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xi, 460 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 301
• Soggetto topico: Feminist anthropology
• Classificazione: 367.2; 301
• Altri autori: LewinEllen
• Note generali: Includes bibliographical references and index
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Feminist Anthropology -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 16 Women's Rights are Human Rights: The Merging of Feminine and -- 17 Searching for ''Voices'': Feminism, Anthropology, -- 18 Imagining the Unborn in the Ecuadoran Andes -- Part V Interpreting Instability and Fluidity -- Introduction -- 19 ''Like a Mother to Them'': Stratified Reproduction and -- 20 Femininity and Flexible Labor: Fashioning Class through Gender -- 21 Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity -- 22 ''What's Identity Got to Do with It?'': Rethinking Identity in -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Feminist Anthropology 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. Offers vibrant examples of feminist ethnographic work rather than synthetic overviews of the field. Each section is framed by a theoretical and bibliographic essay. Includes a thoughtful introduction to the volume that provides context and discusses the intellectual "foremothers" of the field, including Margaret Mead, Ruth Landes, Phyllis Kaberry, and Zora Neale Hurston.
• Titolo autorizzato: Feminist anthropology
• ISBN: 140515456X; 9781405154567
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814593303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology ; ; 8.