ISBN:
0816623376
,
9780816623365
,
0816623368
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 204 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Fictions of Feminist Ethnography
DDC:
305.42/0954
Keywords:
Women Social conditions
;
Women anthropologists Attitudes
;
Feminist anthropology
;
Feminist anthropology ; India
;
Women ; India ; Social conditions
;
Women anthropologists ; Attitudes
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Although feminist ethnography is an emerging genre, the question of what the term means remains open. Recent texts which fall under this rubric rely on unexamined notions of "sisterhood" and the recovery of "lost" voices. In these essays about her work with women in Southern India, Kamala Visweswaran addresses such troubled issues. Blurring distinctions between ethnographic and literary genres, these essays employ the narrative strategies of history, fiction, autobiography and biography, deconstruction, and post-colonial discourse to reveal the fictions of ethnography and the ethnography in fi
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; A Feminist Fable; 1. Introduction: Fictions of Feminist Ethnography; 2. Defining Feminist Ethnography; 3. Betrayal: An Analysis in Three Acts; 4. Refusing the Subject; 5. Feminist Reflections on Deconstructive Ethnography; 6. Feminist Ethnography as Failure; 7. Identifying Ethnography; 8. Introductions to a Diary; 9. Sari Stories; Glossary; Notes; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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