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Trade Review"This rich, well-written, timely set of essays should be required reading for courses about feminist anthropology, the history of gender and women's studies, and those that treat activism in the range of arenas inflected by gender and sexuality and are mapped in constantly shifting ways across human political, sociocultural, and environmental realities ... Summing up: Essential." * Choice *
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"A fresh mapping of feminist anthropology, with outstanding contributions ranging from body politics to transnationalism. The time is right for this smart and engaging collection." -- Florence E. Babb * University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *
"The volume's strongest contributions are those in which authors ground feminist theories with ethnographic data to impel social justice." * Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute *
"This collection is a valuable and encouraging set of meditations on that question and a call for feminist anthropologists to continue embracing their vexations." * American Ethnologist *
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
PrologueRayna R. Rapp
Introduction. Anthropologies and Feminisms: Mapping Our Intellectual JourneyLeni M. Silverstein and Ellen Lewin
Part I Foundations: Problematizing Feminist Anthropology
Feminist Anthropology Engages Social Movements: Theory, Ethnography, and ActivismLouise Lamphere
Feminist Linguistics and Linguistic FeminismsElise Kramer
The Curious Relationship of Feminist Anthropology and Women’s StudiesA. Lynn Bolles
Part II Expansions: Confronting Universals
When Nature/Culture Implodes: Feminist Anthropology and BiotechnologyElizabeth F. S. Roberts
Conceptions of Contraceptions: Feminist Anthropological Perspectives on Men, Women, and Reproductive Health in Two K’iche’ Maya CommunitiesMatthew R. Dudgeon
The Body and Embodiment in the History of Feminist Anthropology: An Idiosyncratic Excursion through BinariesFrances E. Mascia-Lees
Discipline and Desire: Feminist Politics, Queer Studies, and New Queer AnthropologyMargot Weiss
Part III Reverberations: Transnational Encounters
A Greater Measure of Justice: Gender, Violence, and ReparationsKimberly Theidon
Cooking with Firewood: Deep Meaning and Environmental Materialities in a Globalized WorldMeena Khandelwal
Feminist Anthropology: Approaching Domestic Violence in Northern Viet NamLynn Kwiatkowski
Studying Gender and Neoliberalism Transnationally: Implications for Theory and ActionCatherine Kingfisher
EpilogueTom Boellstorff
Notes on ContributorsIndex
