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Women Writing Culture
Ruth Behar
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Description for Women Writing Culture
Paperback. A collection of reflections on the sexual politics, racial history, and moral predicaments of anthropology that explore a range of visions of identity and difference. Editor(s): Behar, Ruth; Gordon, Deborah A. Num Pages: 470 pages, 9 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 33. Weight in Grams: 780.
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? And 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 ... Read more
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? And 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
470
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Weight
676g
Number of Pages
470
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520202085
SKU
V9780520202085
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About Ruth Behar
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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