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https://uofl.on.worldcat.org/oclc/6822390858 - Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future

Feminist anthropology has a very exciting history, so it is something that many anthropologists consider because it deals with crucial branches of anthropology, including biology and archaeology. Scholars in these areas of study are now encouraging feminist anthropologists to broaden their focus beyond gender and address things such as identity.

Annotated Bibliography for work on Feminist Anthropology
Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.

In this book, many different scholar's work are examined to represent different voices in the anthropology subfield of feminist anthropology. This book focuses on many important social issues, most of which deal with gender and sexuality, as its main focus is feminism within anthropology. The contributors talk about their own personal experience and practice of feminist anthropology, as well as the meaning of feminist anthropology today when so many people believe that it is a fractured field. The author's use of historical concepts in feminist anthropology, as well as their focus on the current problems addressed are very useful to my contribution as it offers a wide range of information about the progression of feminist anthropology.

Lewin, Ellen. Feminist Anthropology: A Reader. John Wiley and Sons, 2009.

In this book, the scholarly contributors explore the history of feminist anthropology with examples of different work of ethnography, instead of vast overviews of the subfield. It also offers many different views and standpoints on the history of feminist anthropology as it has essays developed by many scholars in the field. The book also mentions the "founders" of feminist anthropology and their steps in turning the idea into a subfield of anthropology. The varied views on the history of feminist anthropology offer my contribution to Wikipedia an unbiased view and critical evaluation of the history of the subfield.

Behar, Ruth, and Deborah A Gordon. Women Writing Culture. University of California Press, 1995.

In this book on the chapter titled "Feminist Anthropology: The Legacy of Elsie Clews Parsons", authors Behar and Gordon explore the life of Elsie Clews Parsons, a woman who was an anthropologist, feminist, and sociologist. Parsons was also elected the first President of the American Anthropological Association that was a woman. The author's explore Parsons' life from when her interest in feminism began all the way to the end and the impact her actions had on the role of feminist anthropology in the world today. Since the emergence of the post-modern element of ethnography, this novel as a whole explores the issues facing women and the women's rights movement. This book was assembled by many different scholars in the women and gender studies field and offers specific examples of impacting events, which is why it plays such a vital role in my contribution.

Di Leonardo, Micaela. Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge : Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era. University of California Press, 1991.

In this book, author Leonardo is a cultural anthropologist who teaches at Weinberg College and is very interested in different social and economic issues. In this book, Leonardo explores concepts of feminist anthropology and relates them to the present. Leonardo compiled 12 essays from scholars in various fields, offering different viewpoints on the concept of feminist anthropology and what it means in different disciplines (such as biology, sociology, global economies, etc.). By combining these 12 essays written in different time periods, this book is important to my Wikipedia contribution because it addresses points of feminist anthropology from different time frames.

McClaurin, Irma. Black Feminist Anthropology : Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics. Rutgers University Press, 2001.

This book explores feminist anthropology from a black and/or non-western point of view; a point of view that is rarely addressed. Author McClaurin has collected multiple essays from various black feminist anthropologist and has asked them to speak about their experience as black women and how anthropology has influences their experiences in life. There are many examples of different black female anthropologists field work, creating a unique journey through each essay. This book is important to my contribution because it addresses a part of feminist anthropology that is often overlooked, and because of this, my contribution can include as many attributes of feminist anthropology as possible.

Moore, Henrietta L. Feminism and Anthropology. University of Minnesota Press, 1988.

In this book, author Moore explains the importance of anthropology and the impact the feminist critique has on it. This book focuses on the way women have been studied anthropologically throughout history and how that has influenced feminist anthropology as a subfield. Moore also explores how gender has affected the evolution of feminist anthropology and current practices today. This book includes Moore's fieldwork she did while in Africa and applies her experiences there to her feminist critique on the field of anthropology. With Moore's extensive research and field work on the importance of feminism to anthropology, this is a crucial piece to my Wikipedia contribution.

Montoya, Rosario, et al. Gender's Place : Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America. 1st ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

In this book, Author Montoya offers extensive ethnographic studies on feminist anthropology and the significance of the cultural issues facing it in Latin America. The book explores the concepts of gender and placement, and the effects this has on culture and society in Latin America. By removing barriers of ethnography and theory, this book shows the importance of anthropology in gender studies. Since this book focuses on aspects of feminist anthropology outside of the United States, it is important to my contribution because it broadens the lens in which feminist anthropology is focused.

Applegarth, Risa. Rhetoric in American Anthropology : Gender, Genre, and Science. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.

This book surveys the openness of anthropology and how it has accepted everyone from the very start, as it has always been available to women and people of color. Author Applegarth includes essays from many different scholars; those of female anthropologists, as well as those who discuss the importance of ethnography in the study of anthropology. Applegarth addresses anthropologists' work that has been mostly overlooked and brings it to life, as it approaches scientific writings in the field in a completely different way. The author explores the history of anthropology and the approaches many anthropologists have taken to make the field as open as possible, thus developing subfields such as feminist anthropology. This book is a very important part to my Wikipedia contribution because it focuses on the history of anthropology and its want to be open to every type of person.

Feminist Cultural Anthropology REVISED
In the 1970s, women started attending undergraduate and graduate universities where the social sciences, which were at one time largely dominated by men, were now being practiced by men and women alike. With more women in the social science disciplines, they started having an impact on how some issues were being dealt with in the social science fields, such as the emphasis on gender studies and the integration of women’s rights issues into these studies. Women entering the social science fields had such a large impact on the feminist anthropology movement because before the 1980s, female anthropologists mostly focused on aspects such as family, marriage, and kinship. Many female anthropologists reacted to this stereotype placed on them, as they wanted to focus on broader aspects of culture in the scholarly community.

When feminist anthropology first developed, it was intended to be the subdiscipline of the anthropology of women. However, feminist cultural anthropology arose as a subfield itself when anthropologists started to realize that women's and gender studies weren’t published as frequently as other topics in anthropology. As feminist anthropology began being practiced by more people and cultural aspects such as race, values, and customs started being considered, focuses on personal identity and differences between people in varying cultures became the main idea surrounding feminist cultural anthropology. With this advance, female anthropologists started focusing on all aspects of gender and sex and how they vary culturally. With a focus on feminism through an anthropological lens, women’s role in society and their contributions to the social sciences formed itself a new subfield known as feminist cultural anthropology.