Women Writing Culture

Name: Women Writing Culture
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ISBN: 9780520202085

ISBN-10: 0520202082

ISBN-13: 9780520202085

Edition: 1995

Authors: Ruth Behar, Deborah A. Gordon

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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…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/5/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 470
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Introduction



Women Writing Culture


Another Telling of the Story of American Anthropology


Photomontage with Texts



Ella Cara Deloria and Mourning Dove



Writing for Cultures, Writing Against the Grain


Multiple Mediations in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men



Genre, Methodology and Feminist Practice



Gladys Reichard's Ethographic Voice


Jean Brigg's Never in Anger as an Ethnography of Experience



Writing Against the Grain



Cultural Politics of Difference in the Work of Alice Walker


Worlds of Consequences



Feminist Ethnography as Social Action