Gendered Fields: Women, Men, and Ethnography

Gendered Fields: Women, Men, and Ethnography
ISBN-10
0415062527
ISBN-13
9780415062527
Series
Gendered Fields
Category
Social Science
Pages
260
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
Psychology Press
Authors
Diane Bell, Patricia Caplan, Wazir Jahan Karim

Description

Examines and explores the progress of feminist anthropology, the gendered nature of fieldwork itself, and the articulation of gender with other aspects of the persona of the ethnographer.Virtually all anthropologists undertaking fieldwork experience emotional difficulties in relating their own personal culture to the field culture. The issue of gender arises because ethnographers do fieldwork by establishing relationships, and this is done as a person of a particular age, sexual orientation, belief, educational background, ethnic identity and class. In particular it is done as men and women. Gendered Fields examines and explores the progress of feminist anthropology, the gendered nature of fieldwork itself, and the articulation of gender with other aspects of the self of the ethnographer.

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