Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge
Author | : Micaela Di Leonardo |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1991 |
ISBN-10 | : 0520070925 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780520070929 |
Rating | : 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge offers us much more than a sampling of current work in feminist anthropology. . . . Taken together, the chapters ought to convince readers that feminist anthropology is a force to be reckoned with in the reshaping of our intellectual life. It presents a challenge to the familiar conceptual categories out of which not only our theories but also our everyday experience are built. . . . Feminist anthropology has a very important analytical position in gender studies generally. . . . This volume will do a good job of presenting anthropological contributions to non-anthropological audiences."--Rena Lederman, Princeton University