Women Writing Culture

Ruth Behar, Deborah A. Gordon

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University of California Press
05 January 1996

Cultural studies; Gender studies: women; Anthropology

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.

Edited by: Ruth Behar, Deborah A. Gordon
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 771g
ISBN: 9780520202085
ISBN 10: 0520202082
Pages: 470
Publication Date: 05 January 1996
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

CONTRIBUTORS: Lila Abu-Lughod Barbara Babcock Ruth Behar Sally Cole Laurent Dubois Paulla Ebron Janet L. Finn Gelya Frank Deborah A. Gordon Faye V. Harrison Graciela Hernandez Dorinne Kondo Louise Lamphere Smadar Lavie Ellen Lewin Nancy Lutkehaus Catherine Lutz Kirin Narayan Judith Newton Aihwa Ong Judith Stacey Barbara Tedlock Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

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.

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