Feminist Fields: Ethnographic Insights

✍ Scribed by Rae Bridgman (editor); Sally Cole (editor); Heather Howard-Bobiwash (editor)

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 322
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ONE. Introduction
TWO. Pilgrim Souls, Honorary Men, (Un)Dutiful Daughters: Sojourners in Modernist Anthropology
THREE. Translating Mother Tongues: Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston on Ethnographic Authority
FOUR. U.S. Feminist Ethnography and the Denationalizing of "America": A Retrospective on Women Writing Culture
FIVE. Beyond Selves and Others: Embodying and Enacting Meta-Narratives with a Difference
SIX. "Home Has Always Been Hard for Me": Single Mothers' Narratives of Identity, Home, and Loss
SEVEN. "Oh, So You Have a Home To Go To?": Empowerment and Resistance in Work with Chronically Homeless Women
EIGHT. "Like Her Lips to My Ear": Reading Anishnaabekweg Lives and Aboriginal Cultural Continuity in the City
NINE. Who Are We For Them? On Doing Research in the Palestinian West Bank
TEN. Narrating Embodied Lives: Muslim Women on the Coast of Kenya
ELEVEN. Off the Feminist Platform in Turkey: Cherkess Gender Relations
TWELVE. Colonial and Post-Revolutionary Discourses and Nicaraguan Feminist Constructions of Mestiza: Reflections of a Cultural Traveller
THIRTEEN. "Fixo Ben" (She Did the Right Thing): Women and Social Disruption in Rural Galicia
FOURTEEN. "To Reclaim Yoruba Tradition Is To Reclaim Our Queens of Mother Africa" Recasting Gender Through Mediated Practices of the Everyday
FIFTEEN. Gender and Identity Formation in Post-Socialist Ukraine: The Case of Women in the Shuttle Business
SIXTEEN. Rural Women and Economic Development in Reform Era China: The Strategy of the Official Women's Movement
SEVENTEEN. Feminist Fields: Conversations to be Continued
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX