Feminist Anthropology A Reader [Paperback]

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• Offers vibrant examples of feminist ethnographic work rather than synthetic overviews of the field.
  
• Each section is framed by a theoretical and bibliographic essay.
  
• Includes a thoughtful introduction to the volume that provides context and discusses the intellectual “foremothers” of the field, including Margaret Mead, Ruth Landes, Phyllis Kaberry, and Zora Neale Hurston.

Introduction: Ellen Lewin..

Part I. Discovering Women across Cultures.

Introduction.

1. Belief and the Problem of Women and The Problem Revisited (Edwin Ardener).

2. A Note on the Division of Labor by Sex (Judith K. Brown).

3. Is Woman to Man as Nature is to Culture? (Sherry Ortner).

4. The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political Economy of Sex (Gayle Rubin).

5. The Use and Abuse of Anthropology: Reflections on Feminism and Cross-Cultural Understanding (Michelle Z. Rosaldo).

6. Toward a Unified Theory of Class, Race, and Gender (Karen Brodkin).

Part II. Questioning Positionality.

Introduction.

7. Writing against Culture (Lila Abu-Lughod).

8. My Best Informant’s Dress: The Erotic Equation in Fieldwork (Esther Newton).

9. Feminist Insider Dilemmas: Construction Ethnic Identity with Chicana Informants (Pló‡