Feminist Fields

by Bridgman, Rae; Cole, Sally Cooper; Howard-Bobiwash, Heather

• ISBN13: 9781551111957
• ISBN10: 1551111950
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr Higher education

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction	1	(12)
Rae Bridgman
Sally Cole
Heather Howard-Bobiwash
Pilgrim Souls, Honorary Men, (Un) Dutiful Daughters: Sojourners in Modernist Anthropology	13	(20)
Sally Cole
Translating Mother Tongues: Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston on Ethnographic Authority	33	(21)
Karen Su
U.S. Feminist Ethnography and the Denationalizing of ``America'': A Retrospective on Women Writing Culture	54	(16)
Deborah A. Gordon
Beyond Selves and Others: Embodying and Enacting Meta-Narratives with a Difference	70	(16)
Cory Silverstein
``Home Has Always Been Hard for Me'': Single Mothers' Narratives of Identity, Home, and Loss	86	(17)
Susan Frohlick
``Oh, So You Have a Home To Go To?'': Empowerment and Resistance in Work with Chronically Homeless Women	103	(14)
Rae Bridgman
``Like Her Lips to My Ear'': Reading Anishnaabekweg Lives and Aboriginal Cultural Continuity in the City	117	(20)
Heather Howard-Bobiwash
Who Are We For Them? On Doing Research in the Palestinian West Bank	137	(20)
Celia Rothenberg
Narrating Embodied Lives: Muslim Women on the Coast of Kenya	157	(16)
Parin A. Dossa
Off the Feminist Platform in Turkey: Cherkess Gender Relations	173	(23)
Gonul Ertem
Colonial and Post-Revolutionary Discourses and Nicaraguan Feminist Constructions of Mestiza: Reflections of a Cultural Traveller	196	(16)
Milagros Ortiz Barillas
``Fixo Ben'' (She Did the Right Thing): Women and Social Disruption in Rural Galicia	212	(17)
Sharon R. Roseman
``To Reclaim Yoruba Tradition Is To Reclaim Our Queens of Mother Africa'': Recasting Gender Through Mediated Practices of the Everyday	229	(14)
Kamari Maxine Clarke
Gender and Identity Formation in Post-Socialist Ukraine: The Case of Women in the Shuttle Business	243	(21)
Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Rural Women and Economic Development in Reform Era China: The Strategy of the Official Women's Movement	264	(18)
Ellen R. Judd
Feminist Fields: Conversations to be Continued	282	(21)
Heather Howard-Bobiwash, compiler
Contributors	303	(4)
Index	307