Fictions of Feminist Ethnography

Name: Fictions of Feminist Ethnography
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ISBN: 9780816623372

ISBN-10: 0816623376

ISBN-13: 9780816623372

Edition: 1994

Authors: Kamala Visweswaran

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Though feminist ethnography has become fairly common, the question of what the term means remains open, with many of the texts falling under this rubric relying on unexamined notions of "sisterhood" and the recovery of "lost" voices. Writing about women in India, her work with them, and the nature of anthropology itself, Kamala Visweswaran addresses this question in the essays that make up "Fictions of Feminist Ethnography". Blurring ethnographic and literary genres, these essays employ strategies from history, fiction, autobiography and biography, deconstruction, and post-colonial discourse to reveal the fictions in anthropology and the anthropology in fiction, and, in the process, to…

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List price: $25.50
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 5/10/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments


A Feminist Fable



Introduction: Fictions of Feminist Ethnography



Defining Feminist Ethnography



Betrayal: An Analysis in Three Acts



Refusing the Subject



Feminist Reflections on Deconstructive Ethnography



Feminist Ethnography as Failure



Identifying Ethnography



Introductions to a Diary



Sari Stories


Glossary


Notes


Index