Feminist Anthropology A Reader

This volume surveys the history of feminist anthropology and offers students and scholars a fascinating collection of both classic and contemporary articles, grouped to highlight key themes from the past and present.

Ellen Lewin is Professor of Women’s Studies and Anthropology, The University of Iowa.

Acknowledgments

viii

Introduction

1

(38)

Ellen Lewin

Part I Discovering Women across Cultures

39

(108)

Introduction

41

(106)

1 Belief and the Problem of Women and the 'Problem' Revisited

47

(19)

Edwin Ardener

2 A Note on the Division of Labor by Sex

66

(6)

Judith K. Brown

3 Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?

72

(15)

Sherry B. Ortner

4 The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex

87

(20)

Gayle Rubin

5 The Use and Abuse of Anthropology: Reflections on Feminism and Cross-cultural Understanding

107

(22)

Michelle Z. Rosaldo

6 Toward a Unified Theory of Class, Race, and Gender

129

(20)

Karen Brodkin

Part II Questioning Positionality

147

(70)

Introduction

149

(54)

7 Writing against Culture

153

(17)

Lila Abu-Lughod

8 My Best Informant's Dress: The Erotic Equation in Fieldwork

170

(16)

Esther Newton

9 Feminist Insider Dilemmas: Constructing Ethnic Identity with Chicana Informants

186

(17)

Patricia Zavella

10 Contingent Stories of Anthropology, Race, and Feminism

203

(14)

Paulla A. Ebron

Part III Confronting the USA

217

(72)

Introduction

219

(3)

11 Bringing the Family to Work: Women's Culture on the Shop Floor

222

(13)

Louise Lamphere

12 Procreation Stories: Reproduction, Nurturance, and Procreation in Life Narratives of Abortion Activists

235

(15)

Faye Ginsburg

13 Ethnically Correct Dolls: Toying with the Race Industry

250

(21)

Elizabeth Chin

14 Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic

271

(18)

Charis Thompson

Part IV Maintaining Commitments

289

(86)

Introduction

291

(4)

15 Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland Ethnic Violence

295

(16)

Begoña Aretxaga

16 Women's Rights are Human Rights: The Merging of Feminine and Feminist Interests among El Salvador's Mothers of the Disappeared (CO-MADRES)

311

(22)

Lynn Stephen

17 Searching for "Voices": Feminism, Anthropology, and the Global Debates over Female Genital Operations

333

(25)

Christine J. Walley

18 Imagining the Unborn in the Ecuadoran Andes

358

(17)

Lynn M. Morgan

Part V Interpreting Instability and Fluidity

375

(74)

Introduction

377

(3)

19 "Like a Mother to Them": Stratified Reproduction and West Indian Childcare Workers and Employers in New York

380

(17)

Sbellee Colen

20 Femininity and Flexible Labor: Fashioning Class through Gender on the Global Assembly Line

397

(14)

Carla Freeman

21 Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire

411

(24)

Evelyn Blackwood

22 "What's Identity Got to Do with It?": Rethinking Identity in Light of the Mati Work in Suriname

435

(14)

Gloria Wekker

Index

449

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