Women Writing Culture
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In this collection of new reflections on the sexual politics, racial history, and moral predicaments of anthropology, feminist scholars explore a wide range of visions of identity and difference. H...
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In this collection of new reflections on the sexual politics, racial history, and moral predicaments of anthropology, feminist scholars explore a wide range of visions of identity and difference. How are feminists redefining the poetics and politics of ethnography? What are the contradictions of women studying women? How have gender, race, class, and nationality been scripted into the canon?
Through autobiography, fiction, historical analysis, experimental essays, and criticism, the contributors offer exciting responses to these questions. Several pieces reinvestigate the work of key women anthropologists like Elsie Clews Parsons, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict, while others reevaluate the writings of women of color like Zora Neale Hurston, Ella Deloria, and Alice Walker. Some selections explore how sexual politics help to determine what gets written and what is valued in the anthropological canon. Other pieces explore new forms of feminist ethnography that 'write culture' experimentally, thereby challenging prevailing, male-biased anthropological models.
Through autobiography, fiction, historical analysis, experimental essays, and criticism, the contributors offer exciting responses to these questions. Several pieces reinvestigate the work of key women anthropologists like Elsie Clews Parsons, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict, while others reevaluate the writings of women of color like Zora Neale Hurston, Ella Deloria, and Alice Walker. Some selections explore how sexual politics help to determine what gets written and what is valued in the anthropological canon. Other pieces explore new forms of feminist ethnography that 'write culture' experimentally, thereby challenging prevailing, male-biased anthropological models.
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Pages: 470
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
05 January 1996
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520202085
Format: Paperback
Ruth Behar is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and the author of Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story (1993). Deborah Gordon is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Wichita State University.
Preface and Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION: OUT OF EXILE
Ruth Behar
Part 1: Beyond Self and Other
I. PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION
Kirin Narayan
2. BAD GIRLS: THEATER, WOMEN OF COLOR,
AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION
Dorinne Kondo
3. WRITING IN MY FATHER'S NAME:
A DIARY OF TRANSLATED WOMAN'S FIRST YEAR
Ruth Behar
Part II: Another History, Another Canon
4· FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY:
THE LEGACY OF ELSIE CLEWS PARSONS
Louise Lamphere
5· "NOT IN THE ABSOLUTE SINGULAR":
REREADING RUTH BENEDICT
Barbara A. Babcock
6. ELLA CARA DELORIA AND MOURNING DOVE:
WRITING FOR CULTURES, WRITING AGAINST THE GRAIN
Janet L. Finn
7· MULTIPLE SUBJECTIVITIES AND STRATEGIC POSITIONALITY:
ZORA NEALE HURSTON'S EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHIES
Graciela Hernandez
8. RUTH LANDES AND THE EARLY ETHNOGRAPHY
OF RACE AND GENDER
Sally Cole
9· MARGARET MEAD AND THE "RUSTLING-OF-THE-WIND-INI66
THE-PALM-TREES SCHOOL" OF ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING
Nancy C. Lutkehaus
IO. THE ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS OF BARBARA G. MYERHOFF:
ANTHROPOLOGY, FEMINISM, AND THE POLITICS OF
JEWISH IDENTITY
Gelya Frank
I I. WRITING AGAINST THE GRAIN: CULTURAL POLITICS
OF DIFFERENCE IN THE WORK OF ALICE WALKER
Faye V. Harrison
Part Ill: Does Anthropology Have a Sex?
I 2. THE GENDER OF THEORY
Catherine Lutz
I3. WORKS AND WIVES:
ON THE SEXUAL DIVISION OF TEXTUAL LABOR
Barbara Tedlock
I4. MS.REPRESENTATIONS:
REFLECTIONS ON STUDYING ACADEMIC MEN
Judith Newton and Judith Stacey
I5. "MAN'S DARKEST HOURS":
MALENESS, TRAVEL, AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Laurent Dubois
I 6. WRITING LESBIAN ETHNOGRAPHY
Ellen Lewin
Part IV: Traveling Feminists
I7. A TALE OF TWO PREGNANCIES
Lila Abu-Lughod
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: OUT OF EXILE
Ruth Behar
Part 1: Beyond Self and Other
I. PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION
Kirin Narayan
2. BAD GIRLS: THEATER, WOMEN OF COLOR,
AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION
Dorinne Kondo
3. WRITING IN MY FATHER'S NAME:
A DIARY OF TRANSLATED WOMAN'S FIRST YEAR
Ruth Behar
Part II: Another History, Another Canon
4· FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY:
THE LEGACY OF ELSIE CLEWS PARSONS
Louise Lamphere
5· "NOT IN THE ABSOLUTE SINGULAR":
REREADING RUTH BENEDICT
Barbara A. Babcock
6. ELLA CARA DELORIA AND MOURNING DOVE:
WRITING FOR CULTURES, WRITING AGAINST THE GRAIN
Janet L. Finn
7· MULTIPLE SUBJECTIVITIES AND STRATEGIC POSITIONALITY:
ZORA NEALE HURSTON'S EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHIES
Graciela Hernandez
8. RUTH LANDES AND THE EARLY ETHNOGRAPHY
OF RACE AND GENDER
Sally Cole
9· MARGARET MEAD AND THE "RUSTLING-OF-THE-WIND-INI66
THE-PALM-TREES SCHOOL" OF ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING
Nancy C. Lutkehaus
IO. THE ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS OF BARBARA G. MYERHOFF:
ANTHROPOLOGY, FEMINISM, AND THE POLITICS OF
JEWISH IDENTITY
Gelya Frank
I I. WRITING AGAINST THE GRAIN: CULTURAL POLITICS
OF DIFFERENCE IN THE WORK OF ALICE WALKER
Faye V. Harrison
Part Ill: Does Anthropology Have a Sex?
I 2. THE GENDER OF THEORY
Catherine Lutz
I3. WORKS AND WIVES:
ON THE SEXUAL DIVISION OF TEXTUAL LABOR
Barbara Tedlock
I4. MS.REPRESENTATIONS:
REFLECTIONS ON STUDYING ACADEMIC MEN
Judith Newton and Judith Stacey
I5. "MAN'S DARKEST HOURS":
MALENESS, TRAVEL, AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Laurent Dubois
I 6. WRITING LESBIAN ETHNOGRAPHY
Ellen Lewin
Part IV: Traveling Feminists
I7. A TALE OF TWO PREGNANCIES
Lila Abu-Lughod
CONTENTS