Feminist Fields: Ethnographic Insights

Published by University of Toronto Press 1999

Feminist Fields

Ethnographic Insights

Edited by: Rae Bridgman , Sally Cole and Heather Howard-Bobiwash

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442602571

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About this book

Feminist Fields offers a rich and varied portrait of both the current work in feminist anthropology and future possibilities for dialogue between feminism and anthropology. Contributors to the book present critical analyses of a broad range of ethnographic topics: national feminism, gender and identity formation, cultural continuity, ethnographic authority, ethics and representation, empowerment and resistance. Here, young practitioners alongside more established scholars share their theoretical insights, bringing them to life through first-person narratives and stories. Throughout, there is a clear sense of the intellectual inspiration to be had from the practice of feminist anthropology and its emphasis on the power of thoughtful reflexivity in fieldwork and writing practices. Also recognized is an urgent need to bring forward the perspectives of those whose knowledge has been forgotten, ignored, or actively silenced.

Author / Editor information

Bridgman Rae :

Rae Bridgman is assistant professor in the Department of City Planning in the Faculty of Architecture and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba. She is the co-author of Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness (1999).

Cole Sally :

Sally Cole is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. She is author of Woman of the Praia: Work and Lives in a Portuguese Coastal Community (1991).

Howard-Bobiwash Heather :

Heather Howard-Bobiwash is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, and is the co-editor of The Meeting Place: Aboriginal Life in Toronto (1997).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ONE. Introduction Rae Bridgman, Sally Cole and Heather Howard-Bobiwash Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
TWO. Pilgrim Souls, Honorary Men, (Un)Dutiful Daughters: Sojourners in Modernist Anthropology Sally Cole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
THREE. Translating Mother Tongues: Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston on Ethnographic Authority Karen Su Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
FOUR. U.S. Feminist Ethnography and the Denationalizing of "America": A Retrospective on Women Writing Culture Deborah A. Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
FIVE. Beyond Selves and Others: Embodying and Enacting Meta-Narratives with a Difference Cory Silverstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
SIX. "Home Has Always Been Hard for Me": Single Mothers' Narratives of Identity, Home, and Loss Susan Frohlick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
SEVEN. "Oh, So You Have a Home To Go To?": Empowerment and Resistance in Work with Chronically Homeless Women Rae Bndgman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
EIGHT. "Like Her Lips to My Ear": Reading Anishnaabekweg Lives and Aboriginal Cultural Continuity in the City Heather Howard-Bobiwash Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
NINE. Who Are We For Them? On Doing Research in the Palestinian West Bank Celia Rothenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
TEN. Narrating Embodied Lives: Muslim Women on the Coast of Kenya Parin A. Dossa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
ELEVEN. Off the Feminist Platform in Turkey: Cherkess Gender Relations Göniil Ertem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
TWELVE. Colonial and Post-Revolutionary Discourses and Nicaraguan Feminist Constructions of Mestiza: Reflections of a Cultural Traveller Milaaros Ortiz Barillas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
THIRTEEN. "Fixo Ben" (She Did the Right Thing): Women and Social Disruption in Rural Galicia Sharon R. Roseman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
FOURTEEN. "To Reclaim Yoruba Tradition Is To Reclaim Our Queens of Mother Africa" Recasting Gender Through Mediated Practices of the Everyday Kamari Maxine Clarke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
FIFTEEN. Gender and Identity Formation in Post-Socialist Ukraine: The Case of Women in the Shuttle Business Tatiana Zhurzhenko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
SIXTEEN. Rural Women and Economic Development in Reform Era China: The Strategy of the Official Women's Movement Ellen R. Judd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
SEVENTEEN. Feminist Fields: Conversations to be Continued Heather Howard-Bobiwash Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Keywords: Coursebook

eBook

Published: September 1, 1999
ISBN: 9781442602571