Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : out of exile / Ruth Behar
  • Participant observation / Kirin Narayan
  • Bad girls : theater, women of color, and the politics of representation / Dorinne Kondo
  • Writing in my father's name : a diary of Translated Woman's first year / Ruth Behar
  • Feminist anthropology : the legacy of Elsie Clews Parsons / Louise Lamphere
  • "Not in the absolute singular" : rereading Ruth Benedict / Barbara A. Babcock
  • Ella Cara Deloria and Mourning Dove : writing for cultures, writing against the grain / Janet L. Finn
  • Multiple subjectivities and strategic positionality : Zora Neale Hurston's experimental ethnographies / Graciela Hernández
  • Ruth Landes and the early ethnography of race and gender / Sally Cole
  • Margaret Mead and the "Rustling-of-the-wind-in-the-palm-trees school" of ethnographic writing / Nancy C. Lutkehaus
  • The ethnographic films of Barbara G. Myerhoff : anthropology, feminism, and the politics of Jewish identity / Gelya Frank
  • Writing against the grain : cultural politics of difference in the work of Alice Walker / Faye V. Harrison
  • The gender of theory / Catherine Lutz
  • Works and wives : on the sexual division of textual labor / Barbara Tedlock
  • Ms. representations : reflections on studying academic men / Judith Newton and Judith Stacey
  • "Man's darkest hours" : maleness, travel, and anthropology / Laurent Dubois
  • Writing lesbian ethnography / Ellen Lewin
  • A tale of two pregnancies / Lila Abu-Lughod
  • Women out of China : traveling tales and traveling theories in postcolonial feminism / Aihwa Ong
  • Border work : feminist ethnography and the dissemination of literacy / Deborah A. Gordon
  • In dialogue? : reading across minority discourses / Paulla Ebron and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
  • Border poets : translating by dialogues / Smadar Lavie.