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The anthropology of women, introduced through Peggy Golde's "Women in the Field" and Michelle Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere's edited volume Woman, Culture, and Society, attempted to recuperate women as distinct cultural actors otherwise erased by male anthropologists' focus on men's lives as the universal character of a society.
AFA's Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize is named after anthropologist, Michelle Rosaldo, the co-editor of Woman, Culture and Society, the 1974 publication that was instrumental in launching the field of feminist anthropology. The first book award is given to an anthropologist who makes an exceptional contribution to the field of feminist anthropology ...
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.
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.
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 ...
She also publishes regularly in the areas of cultural theory and feminist theory. Sherry Ortner was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" grant in 1990. [4] In 1992, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [5] She has been awarded the Retzius Medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography.
In a 2012 interview between the two, Butler observed that many think of Rubin as an agenda setter for "the methodology for lesbian and gay studies" as well as feminist theory. [23] Outside of anthropology, the article has also been critically engaged by philosophers, labor scholars, [24] and others broadly interested in feminist ideas. [25]
[2] [3] [4] More recent edited volumes compiled by Margaret Lock, Judith Farquhar, and Frances Mascia-Lees provide a better window into current applications of embodiment theory in anthropology. [5] [6] The theoretical background of embodiment is an amalgamation of phenomenology, practice theory, feminist theory, and post-structuralist thought. [7]