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Feminist anthropology : a reader / edited by Ellen Lewin

Published
Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
Physical Description
xi, 460 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Additional Creators
Lewin, Ellen

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pt. I. Discovering women across cultures. Belief and the problem of women and the 'problem' revisited / Edwin Ardener ; A note on the division of labor by sex / Judith K. Brown ; Is female to male as nature is to culture? / Sherry B. Ortner ; The traffic in women: notes on the "political economy" of sex / Gayle Rubin ; The use and abuse of anthropology: reflections on feminism and cross-cultural understanding / Michelle Z. Rosaldo ; Toward a unified theory of class, race, and gender / Karen Brodkin. -- pt. II. Questioning positionality. Writing against culture / Lila Abu-Lughod ; My best informant's dress: the erotic equation in fieldwork / Esther Newton ; Feminist insider dilemmas: constructing ethnic identity with Chicana informants / Patricia Zavella ; Contingent stories of anthropology, race, and feminism / Paulla A. Ebron., pt. III. Confronting the USA. Bringing the family to work: women's culture on the shop floor / Louise Lamphere ; Procreation stories: reproduction, nurturance, and procreation in life narrative of abortion activists / Faye Ginsburg ; Ethnically correct dolls: toying with the race industry / Elizabeth Chin ; Strategic naturalizing: kinship in an infertility clinic / Charis Thompson. -- pt. IV. Maintaining commitments. Dirty protest: symbolic overdetermination and gender in Northern Ireland ethnic violence / Begoña Aretxaga ; Women's rights are human rights: the merging of feminine and feminist interests among El Salvador's mothers of the disappeared (CO-MADRES) / Lynn Stephen ; Searching for "voices": feminism, anthropology, and the global debates over female genital operations / Christine J. Walley ; Imagining the unborn in the Ecuadoran Andes / Lynn M. Morgan., and pt. V. Interpreting instability and fluidity. "Like a mother to them": stratified reproduction and West Indian childcare workers and employers in New York / Shellee Colen ; Femininity and flexible labor: fashioning class through gender on the global assembly line / Carla Freeman ; Tombois in West Sumatra: constructing masculinity and erotic desire / Evelyn Blackwood ; "What's identity got to do with it?": rethinking identity in light of the Mati work in Suriname / Gloria Wekker.
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1405101954 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781405101950 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1405101962 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781405101967 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Note
Includes index.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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