Gender at the crossroads of knowledge : feminist anthropology in the postmodern era / edited and with an introduction by Micaela di Leonardo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Gender, culture and political economy : feminist anthropology in historical perspective / Micaela di Leonardo -- Carnal knowledge and imperial power : gender, race, and morality in colonial Asia / Ann Laura Stoler -- Original narratives : the political economy of gender in archaeology / Margaret W. Conkey with Sarah H. Williams -- Interpreting women in states : new feminist ethnohistories / Irene Silverblatt -- Between speech and silence : the problematics of research on language and gender / Susan Gal -- Baboons with breifcases vs. langurs in lipstick : feminism and functionalism in primate studies / Susan Sperling -- Organizing women : rhetoric, economy, and politics in process among Australian aborigines / Elizabeth A. Povinelli -- Female farming in anthropology and African history / Jane I. Guyer --

Women, technology, and international development ideologies : analyzing feminist voices / Kay B. Warren and Susan C. Bourque -- Mujeres in factories : race and class perspectives on women, work, and family / Patricia Zavella -- Rethinking the sexual division of labor : reproduction and women's work among the Efe / Nadine R. Peacock -- Sexism and naturalism in the study of kinship / Harold W. Scheffler -- Moral pioneers : women, men, and fetuses on a frontier of reproductive technology / Rayna Rapp.

"Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge brings feminist anthropology up to date, highlighting the theoretical sophistication that characterizes recent research. Twelve essays by outstanding scholars, written with the volume's concerns specifically in mind, range across the broadest anthropological terrain, assessing and contributing to feminist work on biological anthropology, primate studies, global economy, new reproductive technologies, ethno-linguistics, race and gender, and more. The editor's introduction not only sets two decades of feminist anthropological work in the multiple contexts of changes in anthropological theory and practice, political and economic developments, and larger intellectual shifts, but also lays out the central insights feminist anthropology has to offer us in the postmodern era. The profound issues raised by the authors resonate with the basic interests of any discipline concerned with gender, that is, all of the social sciences and humanities."--Publisher description.

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