Ethnographic Feminisms : Essays in Anthropology

Ethnographic Feminisms : Essays in Anthropology / edited by Sally Cole, Lynne Phillips.

This book is written by anthropologists who are currently engaged in research on gender. The editors argue for the development of an ethnography-based feminism that both pays heed to what women in specific circumstances identify as their concerns and recognizes the contradictions inherent in the goa...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: MQUP, 1995.
Series:Women's experience series.
Subjects:
Feminist anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Feminist anthropology
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 The Work and Politics of Feminist Ethnography: An Introduction
  • PART I: FIELDS OF DIFFERENCE AND UNITY
  • Introduction
  • 2 Difference, Indifference and Making a Difference: Reflexivity in the Time of Cholera
  • 3 Feminism From Afar or To China and Home Again
  • 4 From Women's Point of View: Practising Feminist Anthropology in a World of Differences
  • 5 Thank you, Breasts! Breastfeeding as a Global Feminist Issue
  • PART II: EXPLORATIONS OF GENDERED WORK
  • Introduction
  • 6 Trading is a White Man's Game The Appropriation of Navajo Women's Weaving7 A Little Free Time on Sunday Women and Domestic Commodity Production
  • 8 Working at Home is Easy For Her Industrial Homework in Contemporary Ontario
  • 9 I Know Now that You Can Change Things Narratives of Canadian Bank Workers as Union Activists
  • PART III: EXPERIMENTS IN ETHNOGRAPHY
  • Introduction
  • 10 Taming the Shrew in Anthropology: Is Feminist Ethnography New Ethnography?
  • 11 Engendering the Mask: Three Voices
  • 12 New Voices on Fieldwork
  • 13 Conversation between Cultures: Outrageous Voices? Issues of Voice & Text in Feminist Anthropology14 Reading the 'Montreal Massacre': Idiosyncratic Insanity or the Misreading of Cultural Cues?
  • 15 By Way of Conclusion
  • Resource Bibliography
  • Some Questions for Discussion
  • Notes on Contributors

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