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Feminist anthropology is a four-field approach to anthropology (archeological, biological, cultural, linguistic) that seeks to transform research findings, anthropological hiring practices, and the scholarly production of knowledge, using insights from feminist theory. [1]
Feminist anthropology was formally recognized as a subdiscipline of anthropology in the late 1970s. [ 2 ] The history of the Association for Feminist Anthropology began in 1988, when a group of American anthropologists met in Phoenix, Arizona with the goal of establishing, "in the beginning, an 'anthropology of women' and later, a feminist and ...
Lewin is four times a recipient of the Ruth Benedict Prize: for two monographs, Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture (1992) and Gay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America (2010) and two edited volumes, Out in Public: Reinventing Lesbian/Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World (co-edited with William L. Leap) (2009) and Out in Theory: The Emergence of ...
Participants at the NWSA Conference 2016. Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppression; and the relationships between power and gender as they intersect with other identities and social ...
Gayle S. Rubin (born January 1, 1949) is an American cultural anthropologist, theorist and activist, best known for her pioneering work in feminist theory and queer studies.
Lamphere received her B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University in 1962 and 1966 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1968. She has published extensively throughout her career on subjects as diverse as the Navajo and their medicinal practices and de-industrialisation and urban anthropology; nonetheless she is possibly best known for her work on feminist anthropology and gender issues.
Rise: A Feminist Book Project, formerly known as the Amelia Bloomer Project and compiled by the American Library Association, is an annual list of books with significant feminist content that are intended for readers from birth to age 18. [1] [2] The Amelia Bloomer Project was started in 2002 and continued annually until the name change in 2020 ...
2003 "Mesoamerican Indigenous Women and Religion" in Latino(a) Research Review, Volume 5, number 2–3. 2003 "The Domestication of Military Violence" in the Society for Feminist Anthropologists' Anthropology Newsletter. 2003 "Mexico Turns South for its Future," pages 6–10 in Society for the Anthropology of North America, Volume 6, number 1 ...