Fictions Of Feminist Ethnography
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Fictions Of Feminist Ethnography
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Author : Kamala Visweswaran
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1994
Fictions Of Feminist Ethnography written by Kamala Visweswaran and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Feminist anthropology categories.
Fictions Of Feminist Ethnography
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Author : Kamala Visweswaran
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1994
Fictions Of Feminist Ethnography written by Kamala Visweswaran and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Thrice Told Tale
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Author : Margery Wolf
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1992-04
A Thrice Told Tale written by Margery Wolf and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-04 with Social Science categories.
A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer's imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist anthropologist, uses three texts developed out of her research in Taiwan--a piece of fiction, anthropological fieldnotes, and a social science article--to explore some of these criticisms. Each text takes a different perspective, is written in a different style, and has different "outcomes," yet all three involve the same fascinating set of events. A young mother began to behave in a decidedly abherrant, perhaps suicidal manner, and opinion in her village was sharply divided over the reason. Was she becoming a shaman, posessed by a god? Was she deranged, in need of physical restraint, drugs, and hospitalization? Or was she being cynically manipulated by her ne'er-do-well husband to elicit sympathy and money from her neighbors? In the end, the woman was taken away from the area to her mother's house. For some villagers, this settled the matter; for others the debate over her behavior was probably never truly resolved. The first text is a short story written shortly after the incident, which occurred almost thrity years ago; the second text is a copy of the fieldnotes collected about the events covered in the short story; the third text is an article published in 1990 in American Ethnologist that analyzes the incident from the author's current perspective. Following each text is a Commentary in which the author discusses such topics as experimental ethnography, polyvocality, authorial presence and control, reflexivity, and some of the differences between fiction and ethnography. The three texts are framed by two chapters in which the author discusses the genereal problems posed by feminist and postmodernist critics of ethnography and presents her personal exploration of these issues in an argument that is strongly self-reflexive and theoretically rigorous. She considers some feminist concerns over colonial research methods and takes issues with the insistence of some feminists tha the topics of ethnographic research be set by those who are studied. The book concludes with a plea for ethnographic responsibility based on a less academic and more practical perspective.
Feminist Ethnography
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Author : Dána-Ain Davis
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-03
Feminist Ethnography written by Dána-Ain Davis and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03 with Social Science categories.
This book employs a problem-based approach to guide readers through the methods, challenges, and possibilities of feminist ethnography. The authors tease out feminist ethnography's influences on women's and gender studies, critical race studies, ethnic studies, education, communications, psychology, sociology, urban studies, and American studies.
Women Writing Culture
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Author : Ruth Behar
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1995
Women Writing Culture written by Ruth Behar and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Social Science categories.
Extrait de la couverture : ""Here, for the first time, is a book that brings women's writings out of exile to rethink anthropology's purpose at the end of the century. ... As a historical resource, the collection undertakes fresh readings of the work of well-known women anthropologists and also reclaims the writings of women of color for anthropology. As a critical account, it bravely interrogates the politics of authorship. As a creative endeavor, it embraces new Feminist voices of ethnography that challenge prevailing definitions of theory and experimental writing."
Visible Histories Disappearing Women
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Author : Mahua Sarkar
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2008-04-25
Visible Histories Disappearing Women written by Mahua Sarkar and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-25 with Social Science categories.
In Visible Histories, Disappearing Women, Mahua Sarkar examines how Muslim women in colonial Bengal came to be more marginalized than Hindu women in nationalist discourse and subsequent historical accounts. She also considers how their near-invisibility except as victims has underpinned the construction of the ideal citizen-subject in late colonial India. Through critical engagements with significant feminist and postcolonial scholarship, Sarkar maps out when and where Muslim women enter into the written history of colonial Bengal. She argues that the nation-centeredness of history as a discipline and the intellectual politics of liberal feminism have together contributed to the production of Muslim women as the oppressed, mute, and invisible “other” of the normative modern Indian subject. Drawing on extensive archival research and oral histories of Muslim women who lived in Calcutta and Dhaka in the first half of the twentieth century, Sarkar traces Muslim women as they surface and disappear in colonial, Hindu nationalist, and liberal Muslim writings, as well as in the memories of Muslim women themselves. The oral accounts provide both a rich source of information about the social fabric of urban Bengal during the final years of colonial rule and a glimpse of the kind of negotiations with stereotypes that even relatively privileged, middle-class Muslim women are still frequently obliged to make in India today. Sarkar concludes with some reflections on the complex links between past constructions of Muslim women, current representations, and the violence against them in contemporary India.
Discrepant Dislocations
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Author : Mary E. John
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1996-01-01
Discrepant Dislocations written by Mary E. John and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Social Science categories.
"I know of no other work which so carefully poses and interrogates the question of 'postcolonial feminism'. . . . Highly original in conception and execution, Discrepant Dislocations radically refigures current feminist ethnography."--Kamala Visweswaran, author of Fictions of Feminist Ethnography "A major work of feminist cultural critique. Mary John writes with grace, candor, and a modest but extremely well-informed sense of the issues at stake in the politics of location for feminist, historians, anthropologists, and postcolonial critics. . . . John forges a position for herself, and by implication for other Third World women, that challenges sanctioned ignorances and opens up a new terrain for feminist theory."--Ruth Behar, coeditor of Women Writing Culture
Un Common Cultures
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Author : Kamala Visweswaran
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-19
Un Common Cultures written by Kamala Visweswaran and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-19 with Social Science categories.
In Un/common Cultures, Kamala Visweswaran develops an incisive critique of the idea of culture at the heart of anthropology, describing how it lends itself to culturalist assumptions. She holds that the new culturalism—the idea that cultural differences are definitive, and thus divisive—produces a view of “uncommon cultures” defined by relations of conflict rather than forms of collaboration. The essays in Un/common Cultures straddle the line between an analysis of how racism works to form the idea of “uncommon cultures” and a reaffirmation of the possibilities of “common cultures,” those that enact new forms of solidarity in seeking common cause. Such “cultures in common” or “cultures of the common” also produce new intellectual formations that demand different analytic frames for understanding their emergence. By tracking the emergence and circulation of the culture concept in American anthropology and Indian and French sociology, Visweswaran offers an alternative to strictly disciplinary histories. She uses critical race theory to locate the intersection between ethnic/diaspora studies and area studies as a generative site for addressing the formation of culturalist discourses. In so doing, she interprets the work of social scientists and intellectuals such as Elsie Clews Parsons, Alice Fletcher, Franz Boas, Louis Dumont, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Clifford Geertz, W. E. B. Du Bois, and B. R. Ambedkar.
Perspectives On Modern South Asia
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Author : Kamala Visweswaran
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2011-05-06
Perspectives On Modern South Asia written by Kamala Visweswaran and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-06 with Social Science categories.
Perspectives on Modern South Asia presents an exciting core collection of essays drawn from anthropology, literary and cultural studies, history, sociology, economics, and political science to reveal the complexities of a region that is home to a fifth of humanity. Presents an interdisciplinary overview of the origins and development of the eight nations comprising modern South Asia: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka Explores South Asia’s common cultures, languages and religions and their relationship to its ethnic and national differences Features essays that provide understandings of the central dynamics of South Asia as an important cultural, political, and economic region of the world
Am I That Name
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Author : Denise Riley
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1988-10-28
Am I That Name written by Denise Riley and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-10-28 with Political Science categories.
Writing about changes in the notion of womanhood, Denise Riley examines, in the manner of Foucault, shifting historical constructions of the category of "women" in relation to other categories central to concepts of personhood: the soul, the mind, the body, nature, the social. Feminist movements, Riley argues, have had no choice but to play out this indeterminacy of women. This is made plain in their oscillations, since the 1790s, between concepts of equality and of difference. To fully recognize the ambiguity of the category of "women" is, she contends, a necessary condition for an effective feminist political philosophy.