Feminist Anthropology A Reader

by Lewin, Ellen

• ISBN13: 9781405101967
• ISBN10: 1405101962
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• 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	viii
Introduction	1	(38)
Ellen Lewin
Part I Discovering Women across Cultures	39	(108)
Introduction	41	(106)
1 Belief and the Problem of Women and the 'Problem' Revisited	47	(19)
Edwin Ardener
2 A Note on the Division of Labor by Sex	66	(6)
Judith K. Brown
3 Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?	72	(15)
Sherry B. Ortner
4 The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex	87	(20)
Gayle Rubin
5 The Use and Abuse of Anthropology: Reflections on Feminism and Cross-cultural Understanding	107	(22)
Michelle Z. Rosaldo
6 Toward a Unified Theory of Class, Race, and Gender	129	(20)
Karen Brodkin
Part II Questioning Positionality	147	(70)
Introduction	149	(54)
7 Writing against Culture	153	(17)
Lila Abu-Lughod
8 My Best Informant's Dress: The Erotic Equation in Fieldwork	170	(16)
Esther Newton
9 Feminist Insider Dilemmas: Constructing Ethnic Identity with Chicana Informants	186	(17)
Patricia Zavella
10 Contingent Stories of Anthropology, Race, and Feminism	203	(14)
Paulla A. Ebron
Part III Confronting the USA	217	(72)
Introduction	219	(3)
11 Bringing the Family to Work: Women's Culture on the Shop Floor	222	(13)
Louise Lamphere
12 Procreation Stories: Reproduction, Nurturance, and Procreation in Life Narratives of Abortion Activists	235	(15)
Faye Ginsburg
13 Ethnically Correct Dolls: Toying with the Race Industry	250	(21)
Elizabeth Chin
14 Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic	271	(18)
Charis Thompson
Part IV Maintaining Commitments	289	(86)
Introduction	291	(4)
15 Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland Ethnic Violence	295	(16)
Begoña Aretxaga
16 Women's Rights are Human Rights: The Merging of Feminine and Feminist Interests among El Salvador's Mothers of the Disappeared (CO-MADRES)	311	(22)
Lynn Stephen
17 Searching for "Voices": Feminism, Anthropology, and the Global Debates over Female Genital Operations	333	(25)
Christine J. Walley
18 Imagining the Unborn in the Ecuadoran Andes	358	(17)
Lynn M. Morgan
Part V Interpreting Instability and Fluidity	375	(74)
Introduction	377	(3)
19 "Like a Mother to Them": Stratified Reproduction and West Indian Childcare Workers and Employers in New York	380	(17)
Sbellee Colen
20 Femininity and Flexible Labor: Fashioning Class through Gender on the Global Assembly Line	397	(14)
Carla Freeman
21 Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire	411	(24)
Evelyn Blackwood
22 "What's Identity Got to Do with It?": Rethinking Identity in Light of the Mati Work in Suriname	435	(14)
Gloria Wekker
Index	449