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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 ...
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.
Annette Barbara Weiner née Cohen (February 14, 1933 – 7 December 1997) was one of the most prominent American cultural anthropologists, earning recognition as the President of the American Anthropological Association (1991–1993), Presidents of the Society for Cultural Anthropology (1987–1989), Chair of Anthropology (1981–1991).
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]
Anthropological Literature (AL) is an online database of citations to journal articles and articles in edited volumes and symposia held by the Tozzer Library (previously the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology), the anthropology library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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]
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 ...
Women Writing Culture took three forms: a 1991 seminar at the University of Michigan, a 1993 special issue of the journal Critique of Anthropology, and the 1995 book.These were organized, in part, in response to the 1986 book Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, edited by James Clifford and George E. Marcus. [7]