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Although feminist ethnography is an emerging genre, the question of what the term means remains open. Recent texts that fall under this rubric rely on unexamined notions of ""sisterhood"" and the recovery of ""lost"" voices. Writing about her work with women i...

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Auteur principal: Visweswaran, Kamala (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Women > Social conditions.
Women anthropologists > Attitudes.
Feminist anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Femmes > Inde > Conditions sociales.
Femmes anthropologues > Attitudes.
Feminisme et anthropologie > Inde.
Women > India > Social conditions.
Feminist anthropology > India.
India.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:Although feminist ethnography is an emerging genre, the question of what the term means remains open. Recent texts that fall under this rubric rely on unexamined notions of ""sisterhood"" and the recovery of ""lost"" voices. Writing about her work with women in Southern India, Kamala Visweswaran addresses such troubled questions in the essays that make up Fictions of Feminist Ethnography. Blurring distinctions between ethnographic and literary genres, the author employs the narrative strategies of history, fiction, autobiography and biography, deconstruction, and postcolonial discourse to reve.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (224 pages).
ISBN:9780816685448

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