- 320 pages
- English
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About This Book
Feminist Fields offers a rich and varied portrait of both the current work in feminist anthropology and future possibilities for dialogue between feminism and anthropology. Contributors to the book present critical analyses of a broad range of ethnographic topics: national feminism, gender and identity formation, cultural continuity, ethnographic authority, ethics and representation, empowerment and resistance. Here, young practitioners alongside more established scholars share their theoretical insights, bringing them to life through first-person narratives and stories. Throughout, there is a clear sense of the intellectual inspiration to be had from the practice of feminist anthropology and its emphasis on the power of thoughtful reflexivity in fieldwork and writing practices. Also recognized is an urgent need to bring forward the perspectives of those whose knowledge has been forgotten, ignored, or actively silenced.
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- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ONE. Introduction
- TWO. Pilgrim Souls, Honorary Men, (Un)Dutiful Daughters: Sojourners in Modernist Anthropology
- THREE. Translating Mother Tongues: Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston on Ethnographic Authority
- FOUR. U.S. Feminist Ethnography and the Denationalizing of "America": A Retrospective on Women Writing Culture
- FIVE. Beyond Selves and Others: Embodying and Enacting Meta-Narratives with a Difference
- SIX. "Home Has Always Been Hard for Me": Single Mothers' Narratives of Identity, Home, and Loss
- SEVEN. "Oh, So You Have a Home To Go To?": Empowerment and Resistance in Work with Chronically Homeless Women
- EIGHT. "Like Her Lips to My Ear": Reading Anishnaabekweg Lives and Aboriginal Cultural Continuity in the City
- NINE. Who Are We For Them? On Doing Research in the Palestinian West Bank
- TEN. Narrating Embodied Lives: Muslim Women on the Coast of Kenya
- ELEVEN. Off the Feminist Platform in Turkey: Cherkess Gender Relations
- TWELVE. Colonial and Post-Revolutionary Discourses and Nicaraguan Feminist Constructions of Mestiza: Reflections of a Cultural Traveller
- THIRTEEN. "Fixo Ben" (She Did the Right Thing): Women and Social Disruption in Rural Galicia
- FOURTEEN. "To Reclaim Yoruba Tradition Is To Reclaim Our Queens of Mother Africa" Recasting Gender Through Mediated Practices of the Everyday
- FIFTEEN. Gender and Identity Formation in Post-Socialist Ukraine: The Case of Women in the Shuttle Business
- SIXTEEN. Rural Women and Economic Development in Reform Era China: The Strategy of the Official Women's Movement
- SEVENTEEN. Feminist Fields: Conversations to be Continued
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX