| Description |
xiii, 457 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Out of exile / Ruth Behar -- Participant observation / Kirin Narayan -- Bad girls: theater, women of color, and the politics of representation / Dorinne Kondo -- Writing in my father's name: a diary of Translated Woman's first year / Ruth Behar -- Feminist anthropology: the legacy of Elsie Clews Parsons / Louise Lamphere -- "Not in the absolute singular": rereading Ruth Benedict / Barbara A. Babcock -- Ella Cara Deloria and Mourning Dove: writing for cultures, writing against the grain / Janet L. Finn -- Multiple subjectivities and strategic positionality: Zora Neale Hurston's experimental ethnographies / Graciela Hernandez -- Ruth Landes and the early ethnography of race and gender / Sally Cole -- Margaret Mead and the "Rustling-of-the-wind-in-the-palm-trees school" of ethnographic writing / Nancy C. Lutkehaus -- The ethnographic films of Barbara G. Myerhoff: anthropology, feminism, and the politics of Jewish identity / Gelya Frank -- Writing against the grain: cultural politics of difference in the work of Alice Walker / Faye V. Harrison -- The gender of theory / Catherine Lutz -- Works and wives: on the sexual division of textual labor / Barbara Tedlock -- Ms. representations: reflections on studying academic men / Judith Newton and Judith Stacey -- "Man's darkest hours": maleness, travel, and anthropology / Laurent Dubois -- Writing lesbian ethnography / Ellen Lewin -- A tale of two pregnancies / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Women out of China: traveling tales and traveling theories in postcolonial feminism / Aihwa Ong -- Border work: feminist ethnography and the dissemination of literacy / Deborah A. Gordon -- In dialogue? reading across minority discourses / Paulla Ebron and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing -- Border poets: translating by dialogues / Smadar Lavie. |
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Women anthropologists -- Attitudes.
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Ethnology -- Authorship.
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Ethnology -- Philosophy.
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Feminist anthropology.
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Literature -- Women authors.
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Feminist literary criticism.
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| Added Author |
Behar, Ruth, 1956-
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Gordon, Deborah A., 1956-
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| ISBN |
0520202082 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0520202074 (alk. paper) |
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