Ellen Lewin 
Feminist Anthropology [PDF ebook] 
A Reader

Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Ellen Lewin..
Part I. Discovering Women across Cultures.
Introduction.
1. Belief and the Problem of Women and The ‘Problem’ Revisited
(Edwin Ardener).
2. A Note on the Division of Labor by Sex (Judith K. Brown).
3. Is Woman to Man as Nature is to Culture? (Sherry Ortner).
4. The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex
(Gayle Rubin).
5. The Use and Abuse of Anthropology: Reflections on Feminism
and Cross-Cultural Understanding (Michelle Z. Rosaldo).
6. Toward a Unified Theory of Class, Race, and Gender (Karen
Brodkin).
Part II. Questioning Positionality.
Introduction.
7. Writing against Culture (Lila Abu-Lughod).
8. My Best Informant’s Dress: The Erotic Equation in
Fieldwork (Esther Newton).
9. Feminist Insider Dilemmas: Construction Ethnic Identity with
Chicana Informants (Patricia Zavella).
10. Contingent Stories of Anthropology, Race, and Feminism
(Paulla Ebron).
Part III. Interpreting Instability and Fluidity.
Introduction.
11. Bringing the Family to Work: Women’s Culture on the
Shop Floor (Louise Lamphere).
12. Procreation Stories: Reproduction, Nurturance, and
Procreation in Life Narratives of Abortion Activists (Faye
Ginsburg).
13. Ethnically Correct Dolls: Toying with the Race Industry
(Elizabeth Chin).
14. Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic
(Charis Thompson).
Part IV. Maintaining Commitments.
Introduction.
15. Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in
Northern Ireland (Begoña Aretxaga).
16. Women’s Rights are Human Rights: The Merging of
Feminine and Feminist: Interests among El Salvador’s Mothers
of the Disappeared (CO-MADRES) (Lynn Stephen).
17. Searching for ‘Voices: Feminism, Anthropology, and the
Global Debates over Female Genital Operations (Christine J.
Walley).
18. Imagining the Unborn in the Ecuadoran Andes (Lynn M.
Morgan).
Part V. Interpreting Instability and Fluidity.
Introduction.
19. ‘Like a Mother to Them’: Stratified Reproduction and West
Indian Childcare Workers and Employers in New York (Shellee
Colen).
20. Femininity and Flexible Labor: Fashioning Class through
Gender on the Global Assembly Line (Carla Freeman).
21. Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic
Desire (Evelyn Blackwood).
22 ‘What’s Identity Got to Do with It?’ Rethinking
Identity in Light of the Mati Work (Gloria Wekker).
Index.

Ellen Lewin is Professor of Women’s Studies and Anthropology, The University of Iowa.