Feminist Fields : : Ethnographic Insights / / ed. by Rae Bridgman, Sally Cole, Heather Howard-Bobiwash.

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 ident...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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