Feminist Anthropology A Reader

by Lewin, Ellen

• ISBN13: 9781405101950
• ISBN10: 1405101954
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-03
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume 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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Discovering Women across Cultures	p. 39
Introduction	p. 41
Belief and the Problem of Women and the 'Problem' Revisited	p. 47
A Note on the Division of Labor by Sex	p. 66
Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?	p. 72
The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex	p. 87
The Use and Abuse of Anthropology: Reflections on Feminism and Cross-cultural Understanding	p. 107
Toward a Unified Theory of Class, Race, and Gender	p. 129
Questioning Positionality	p. 147
Introduction	p. 149
Writing against Culture	p. 153
My Best Informant's Dress: The Erotic Equation in Fieldwork	p. 170
Feminist Insider Dilemmas: Constructing Ethnic Identity with Chicana Informants	p. 186
Contingent Stories of Anthropology, Race, and Feminism	p. 203
Confronting the USA	p. 217
Introduction	p. 219
Bringing the Family to Work: Women's Culture on the Shop Floor	p. 222
Procreation Stories: Reproduction, Nurturance, and Procreation in Life Narratives of Abortion Activists	p. 235
Ethnically Correct Dolls: Toying with the Race Industry	p. 250
Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic	p. 271
Maintaining Commitments	p. 289
Introduction	p. 291
Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland Ethnic Violence	p. 295
Women's Rights are Human Rights: The Merging of Feminine and Feminist Interests among El Salvador's Mothers of the Disappeared (CO-MADRES)	p. 311
Searching for "Voices": Feminism, Anthropology, and the Global Debates over Female Genital Operations	p. 333
Imagining the Unborn in the Ecuadoran Andes	p. 358
Interpreting Instability and Fluidity	p. 375
Introduction	p. 377
"Like a Mother to Them": Stratified Reproduction and West Indian Childcare Workers and Employers in New York	p. 380
Femininity and Flexible Labor: Fashioning Class through Gender on the Global Assembly Line	p. 397
Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire	p. 411
"What's Identity Got to Do with It?": Rethinking Identity in Light of the Mati Work in Suriname	p. 435
Index	p. 449
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