Feminist Anthropology: A Reader

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 with
		10 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