Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Conference for Women in Anthropology
Black Feminist Anthropology
Author: Irma McClaurinPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813529264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In the discipline's early days, anthropologists by definition were assumed to be white and male. Women and black scholars were relegated to the field's periphery. From this marginal place, white feminist anthropologists have successfully carved out an acknowledged intellectual space, identified as feminist anthropology. Unfortunately, the works of black and non-western feminist anthropologists are rarely cited, and they have yet to be respected as significant shapers of the direction and transformation of feminist anthropology. In this volume, Irma McClaurin has collected-for the first time-essays that explore the role and contributions of black feminist anthropologists. She has asked her contributors to disclose how their experiences as black women have influenced their anthropological practice in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, and how anthropology has influenced their development as black feminists. Every chapter is a unique journey that enables the reader to see how scholars are made. The writers present material from their own fieldwork to demonstrate how these experiences were shaped by their identities. Finally, each essay suggests how the author's field experiences have influenced the theoretical and methodological choices she has made throughout her career. Not since Diane Wolf's Feminist Dilemmas in the Field or Hortense Powdermaker's Stranger and Friend have we had such a breadth of women anthropologists discussing the critical (and personal) issues that emerge when doing ethnographic research.
International Women's Anthropology Conference
Author: A Conference Report: a Decade of Women's Collective Action: Anthropological Perspectives
Author: Eleanor B. LeacockPracticing Feminist Anthropology
Author: Constance SuttonComparison in Anthropology
Author: Matei CandeaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108474608
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Presents a systematic rethinking of the power and limits of comparison in anthropology.
Theological Anthropology and the Experience of Women
Author: Anne CarrNational Women's Anthropology Newsletter
Author: Decolonizing Anthropology
Author: Faye Venetia HarrisonPublisher: American Anthropological Association
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Decolonizing Anthropology is part of a broader effort that aims to advance the critical reconstruction of the discipline devoted to understanding humankind in all its diversity and commonality. The utility and power of a decolonized anthropology must continue to be tested and developed. May the results of ethnographic probes--the data, the social and cultural analysis, the theorizing, and the strategies for knowledge application--help scholars envision clearer paths toincreased understanding, a heightened sense of intercultural and international solidarity, and last, but certainly not least, world transformation.
Women and Rights
Author: Caroline SweetmanPublisher: Oxfam
ISBN: 9780855983178
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The UN Human Rights Conference in 1993 proclaimed that 'Women's rights are human rights'. This book in the Focus on Gender series explores issues of women's rights including the legal background and history of human rights legislation, the special human-rights problems of women in situations of conflict or as refugees, violence against women as a human-rights violation, women's rights as workers, the rights of disabled women, and the importance of providing information and training to enable women to claim their rights. Focusing on women's rights involves the recognition that, throughout the world, legal systems to guarantee rights have their roots in cultures which discriminate against women. Development and human rights are closely linked, and the empowerment of women to claim the human rights to which they are entitled will enable them to take full advantage of development processes.