Ethnographic Feminisms
Essays in Anthropology
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- May 1995
- Category
- General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773581326
- Publish Date
- May 1995
- List Price
- $110.00
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Description
This book is written by anthropologists who are currently engaged in research on gender. The editors argue for the development of an ethnography-based feminism that both pays heed to what women in specific circumstances identify as their concerns and recognizes the contradictions inherent in the goals of feminist anthropology. The essays consider a range of "awkward" issues, including feminism in international contexts, the invisibility of women's working lives, and the problems of voice and ethnographic representation. Referring to a variety of ethnographic contexts, and working from diverse perspectives, the contributors examine the multiple dilemmas and conflicts of gender and power.
About the author
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).