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Women writing culture /Ruth Behar; Deborah A Gordon

By: Ruth Behar ; Deborah A GordonContributor(s): Ruth Behar; Deborah A GordonMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments ,5 Ansari Road,DaryaGanj,New Delhi-110002Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press , ©1995Description: xiii, 457 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9780520202085Subject(s): Social SciencesGenre/Form: Women anthropologists--AttitudesDDC classification: 305.42 BEH

Contents:

Introduction : out of exile / Ruth Behar -- Participant observation / Kirin Narayan -- Bad girls : theater, women of color, and the politics of representation / Dorinne Kondo -- Writing in my father's name : a diary of Translated Woman's first year / Ruth Behar -- Feminist anthropology : the legacy of Elsie Clews Parsons / Louise Lamphere -- "Not in the absolute singular" : rereading Ruth Benedict / Barbara A. Babcock -- Ella Cara Deloria and Mourning Dove : writing for cultures, writing against the grain / Janet L. Finn -- Multiple subjectivities and strategic positionality : Zora Neale Hurston's experimental ethnographies / Graciela Hernández -- Ruth Landes and the early ethnography of race and gender / Sally Cole -- Margaret Mead and the "Rustling-of-the-wind-in-the-palm-trees school" of ethnographic writing / Nancy C. Lutkehaus -- The ethnographic films of Barbara G. Myerhoff : anthropology, feminism, and the politics of Jewish identity / Gelya Frank -- Writing against the grain : cultural politics of difference in the work of Alice Walker / Faye V. Harrison -- The gender of theory / Catherine Lutz -- Works and wives : on the sexual division of textual labor / Barbara Tedlock -- Ms. representations : reflections on studying academic men / Judith Newton and Judith Stacey -- "Man's darkest hours" : maleness, travel, and anthropology / Laurent Dubois -- Writing lesbian ethnography / Ellen Lewin -- A tale of two pregnancies / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Women out of China : traveling tales and traveling theories in postcolonial feminism / Aihwa Ong -- Border work : feminist ethnography and the dissemination of literacy / Deborah A. Gordon -- In dialogue? : reading across minority discourses / Paulla Ebron and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing -- Border poets : translating by dialogues / Smadar Lavie.

Summary: A collection of reflections on the sexual politics, racial history, and moral predicaments of anthropology that explore a range of visions of identity and difference.

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Introduction : out of exile / Ruth Behar --
Participant observation / Kirin Narayan --
Bad girls : theater, women of color, and the politics of representation / Dorinne Kondo --
Writing in my father's name : a diary of Translated Woman's first year / Ruth Behar --
Feminist anthropology : the legacy of Elsie Clews Parsons / Louise Lamphere --
"Not in the absolute singular" : rereading Ruth Benedict / Barbara A. Babcock --
Ella Cara Deloria and Mourning Dove : writing for cultures, writing against the grain / Janet L. Finn --
Multiple subjectivities and strategic positionality : Zora Neale Hurston's experimental ethnographies / Graciela Hernández --
Ruth Landes and the early ethnography of race and gender / Sally Cole --
Margaret Mead and the "Rustling-of-the-wind-in-the-palm-trees school" of ethnographic writing / Nancy C. Lutkehaus --
The ethnographic films of Barbara G. Myerhoff : anthropology, feminism, and the politics of Jewish identity / Gelya Frank --
Writing against the grain : cultural politics of difference in the work of Alice Walker / Faye V. Harrison --
The gender of theory / Catherine Lutz --
Works and wives : on the sexual division of textual labor / Barbara Tedlock --
Ms. representations : reflections on studying academic men / Judith Newton and Judith Stacey --
"Man's darkest hours" : maleness, travel, and anthropology / Laurent Dubois --
Writing lesbian ethnography / Ellen Lewin --
A tale of two pregnancies / Lila Abu-Lughod --
Women out of China : traveling tales and traveling theories in postcolonial feminism / Aihwa Ong --
Border work : feminist ethnography and the dissemination of literacy / Deborah A. Gordon --
In dialogue? : reading across minority discourses / Paulla Ebron and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing --
Border poets : translating by dialogues / Smadar Lavie.

A collection of reflections on the sexual politics, racial history, and moral predicaments of anthropology that explore a range of visions of identity and difference.

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