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Women writing culture / edited by Ruth Behar and Deborah A. Gordon.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Behar, Ruth, 1956- (Editor), Gordon, Deborah A., 1956- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [1995]
Subjects:	Women anthropologists > Attitudes Ethnology > Authorship Ethnology > Philosophy Feminist anthropology Women authors Feminist literary criticism

Table of Contents:

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Out of Exile
1. Participant Observation
2. Bad Girls: Theater, Women of Color, and the Politics of Representation
3. Writing in My Father's Name: A Diary of Translated Woman's First Year
4. Feminist Anthropology: The Legacy of Elsie Clews Parsons
5. "Not in the Absolute Singular": Rereading Ruth Benedict
6. Ella Cara Deloria and Mourning Dove: Writing for Cultures, Writing Against the Grain
7. Multiple Subjectivities and Strategic Positionality: Zora Neale Hurston's Experimental Ethnographies
8. Ruth Landes and the Early Ethnography of Race and Gender
9. Margaret Mead and the "Rustling-Of-The-Wind-In-The-Palm-Trees School" Of Ethnographic Writing
10. The Ethnographic Films of Barbara G. Myerhoff: Anthropology, Feminism, and the Politics of Jewish Identity
11. Writing Against the Grain: Cultural Politics of Difference in the Work of Alice Walker
12. The Gender of Theory
13. Works and Wives: On the Sexual Division of Textual Labor
14. Ms. Representations: Reflections on Studying Academic Men
15. "Man's Darkest Hours": Maleness, Travel, and Anthropology
16. Writing Lesbian Ethnography
17. A Tale of Two Pregnancies
18. Women Out of China: Traveling Tales and Traveling Theories in Postcolonial Feminism
19. Border Work: Feminist Ethnography and the Dissemination of Literacy
20. In Dialogue? Reading Across Minority Discourses
21. Border Poets: Translating by Dialogues
Conclusion: Culture Writing Women: Inscribing Feminist Anthropology
Notes on Contributors
Index.