Mapping Feminist Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century

Informationen zum Autor ELLEN LEWIN is a professor of gender, women's, and sexuality studies and anthropology at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. She is the author or coeditor of several books including Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture and Out in Public: Reinventing Lesbian/Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World. LENI M. SILVERSTEIN is an anthropologist and international reproductive health professional who founded the consulting firm Strategies for Development. She has consulted with foundations (Ashoka, Ford, MacArthur), government officials, multilateral agencies, and commercial enterprises, providing technical assistance and evaluations for health sectors. Klappentext Mapping Feminist Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century provides an historical and theoretical overview of feminist anthropology's origins, the transformation it has undergone, and the vital contributions it continues to make to cutting-edge scholarship. Chronicling the impact feminist anthropologists have made on a wide range of academic fields, from science and technology studies to queer theory, it also reveals the important role they have played in global campaigns against human rights abuses, domestic violence, and environmental degradation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments PrologueRayna R. Rapp Introduction. Anthropologies and Feminisms: Mapping Our Intellectual JourneyLeni M. Silverstein and Ellen Lewin Part I Foundations: Problematizing Feminist Anthropology Feminist Anthropology Engages Social Movements: Theory, Ethnography, and ActivismLouise Lamphere Feminist Linguistics and Linguistic FeminismsElise Kramer The Curious Relationship of Feminist Anthropology and Women's StudiesA. Lynn Bolles Part II Expansions: Confronting Universals When Nature/Culture Implodes: Feminist Anthropology and BiotechnologyElizabeth F. S. Roberts Conceptions of Contraceptions: Feminist Anthropological Perspectives on Men, Women, and Reproductive Health in Two K'iche' Maya CommunitiesMatthew R. Dudgeon The Body and Embodiment in the History of Feminist Anthropology: An Idiosyncratic Excursion through BinariesFrances E. Mascia-Lees Discipline and Desire: Feminist Politics, Queer Studies, and New Queer AnthropologyMargot Weiss Part III Reverberations: Transnational Encounters A Greater Measure of Justice: Gender, Violence, and ReparationsKimberly Theidon Cooking with Firewood: Deep Meaning and Environmental Materialities in a Globalized WorldMeena Khandelwal Feminist Anthropology: Approaching Domestic Violence in Northern Viet NamLynn Kwiatkowski Studying Gender and Neoliberalism Transnationally: Implications for Theory and ActionCatherine Kingfisher EpilogueTom Boellstorff Notes on ContributorsIndex ...

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ELLEN LEWIN is a professor of gender, women’s, and sexuality studies and anthropology at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. She is the author or coeditor of several books including Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture and Out in Public: Reinventing Lesbian/Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World. LENI M. SILVERSTEIN is an anthropologist and international reproductive health professional who founded the consulting firm Strategies for Development. She has consulted with foundations (Ashoka, Ford, MacArthur), government officials, multilateral agencies, and commercial enterprises, providing technical assistance and evaluations for health sectors.

Klappentext
Mapping Feminist Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century provides an historical and theoretical overview of feminist anthropology’s origins, the transformation it has undergone, and the vital contributions it continues to make to cutting-edge scholarship. Chronicling the impact feminist anthropologists have made on a wide range of academic fields, from science and technology studies to queer theory, it also reveals the important role they have played in global campaigns against human rights abuses, domestic violence, and environmental degradation.

Inhalt
Acknowledgments
PrologueRayna R. Rapp
Introduction. Anthropologies and Feminisms: Mapping Our Intellectual JourneyLeni M. Silverstein and Ellen Lewin
Part I Foundations: Problematizing Feminist Anthropology
Feminist Anthropology Engages Social Movements: Theory, Ethnography, and ActivismLouise Lamphere
Feminist Linguistics and Linguistic FeminismsElise Kramer
The Curious Relationship of Feminist Anthropology and Women’s StudiesA. Lynn Bolles
Part II Expansions: Confronting Universals
When Nature/Culture Implodes: Feminist Anthropology and BiotechnologyElizabeth F. S. Roberts
Conceptions of Contraceptions: Feminist Anthropological Perspectives on Men, Women, and Reproductive Health in Two K’iche’ Maya CommunitiesMatthew R. Dudgeon
The Body and Embodiment in the History of Feminist Anthropology: An Idiosyncratic Excursion through BinariesFrances E. Mascia-Lees
Discipline and Desire: Feminist Politics, Queer Studies, and New Queer AnthropologyMargot Weiss
Part III Reverberations: Transnational Encounters
A Greater Measure of Justice: Gender, Violence, and ReparationsKimberly Theidon
Cooking with Firewood: Deep Meaning and Environmental Materialities in a Globalized WorldMeena Khandelwal
Feminist Anthropology: Approaching Domestic Violence in Northern Viet NamLynn Kwiatkowski
Studying Gender and Neoliberalism Transnationally: Implications for Theory and ActionCatherine Kingfisher
EpilogueTom Boellstorff
Notes on ContributorsIndex

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