Feminist anthropology : a reader

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Feminist Anthropology; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Discovering Women across Cultures; Introduction; 1 Belief and the Problem of Women and the 'Problem' Revisited; 2 A Note on the Division of Labor by Sex; 3 Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?; 4 The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ''Political Economy'' of Sex; 5 The Use and Abuse of Anthropology: Reflections on Feminism; 6 Toward a Unified Theory of Class, Race, and Gender; Part II Questioning Positionality; Introduction; 7 Writing against Culture; 8 My Best Informant's Dress: The Erotic Equation in Fieldwork. 9 Feminist Insider Dilemmas: Constructing Ethnic Identity with10 Contingent Stories of Anthropology, Race, and Feminism; Part III Confronting the USA; Introduction; 11 Bringing the Family to Work: Women's Culture on the Shop Floor; 12 Procreation Stories: Reproduction, Nurturance, and Procreation; 13 Ethnically Correct Dolls: Toying with the Race Industry; 14 Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic; Part IV Maintaining Commitments; Introduction; 15 Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender; 16 Women's Rights are Human Rights: The Merging of Feminine and. 17 Searching for ''Voices'': Feminism, Anthropology,18 Imagining the Unborn in the Ecuadoran Andes; Part V Interpreting Instability and Fluidity; Introduction; 19 ''Like a Mother to Them'': Stratified Reproduction and; 20 Femininity and Flexible Labor: Fashioning Class through Gender; 21 Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity; 22 ''What's Identity Got to Do with It?'': Rethinking Identity in; Index