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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.

Feminist anthropology. --- Feminist ethnography --- Feminist ethnology --- Anthropology --- Féminisme et anthropologie

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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? 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 of women of color like Zora Neale Hurston, Ella Deloria, and Alice Walker. Some selections explore how sexual politics help to determine what gets written and what is valued in the anthropological canon. Other pieces explore new forms of feminist ethnography that 'write culture' experimentally, thereby challenging prevailing, male-biased anthropological models.

Ethnology --- Feminist anthropology. --- Women anthropologists --- Authorship. --- Philosophy. --- Attitudes. --- Anthropologie féministe --- Critique littéraire féministe --- Ecrits de femmes --- Feminist anthropology --- Feminist ethnography --- Feminist ethnology --- Feminist literary criticism --- Feministische anthropologie --- Feministische literatuurkritiek --- Geschriften van vrouwen --- Women's writings --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Developmental psychology --- Sexology --- Jewish religion --- Sociology of culture --- Theatrical science --- Walker, Alice --- Mead, Margaret --- Benedict, Ruth --- Hurston, Zora Neale --- United States --- China --- Parsons, Elsie C. --- Landes, Ruth --- Attitudes --- Authorship --- Philosophy --- Myerhoff, Barbara --- United States of America --- Race --- Feminism --- Gender --- Discourse analysis --- Homosexuality --- Migration background --- Indigenous population --- Judaism --- Female homosexuality --- Masculinity --- Theatre --- Theory --- Women --- Blackness --- Book --- Culture --- Anthropology