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Naturalizing Power: Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis

by Sylvia Junko Yanagisako

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Publisher Comments:

While the volume includes a range of modes of feminist cultural analysis, all of them analyze specific cultural practices in which inequality and hierarchy appear to be logical consequences of people's identities and the order of things.

Synopsis:

This collection of essays analyzes relations of social inequality that appear to be logical extensions of a natural order, and in the process demonstrates that a revitalized feminist anthropology of the 1990s has much to offer the field of feminist theory.

Fashioned as a response to the lack of cultural analysis in feminist scholarship, the contributors question the category of gender within the inclusive context of the structural dynamics of inequality. They also examine how cultural identities, domains and institutions affect our perception of gender in society.

The first selection of essays addresses how ideas of family and kinship have fostered society's hierarchies and legitimized the status quo. In part two, the essays show how several dimensions of inequality are implicit in the construction of identities that are based upon ideas of social solidarity.

Contributors: Susan McKinnon, University of Virginia; Kath Weston, Arizona State West; Rayna Rapp, New School for Social Research; Janet Dolgin, Hofstra University; Harriet Whitehead, Duke University; Carol Delaney, Stanford University; Brackette Williams, University of Arizona; Sylvia Yanagisako, Stanford University; Phyllis Chock, Catholic University; Sherry Ortner, University of Michigan; Anna Tsing, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Synopsis:

Social Research; Janet Dolgin, Hofstra University; Harriet Whitehead, Duke University; Carol Delaney, Stanford University; Brackette Williams, University of Arizona; Sylvia Yanagisako, Stanford University; Phyllis Chock, Catholic University; Sherry Ortner, University of Michigan; Anna Tsing, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780415908849
Subtitle:
Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis
Editor:
Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko
Editor:
Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko
Editor:
Delaney, Carol
Editor:
Delaney, Carol
Editor:
Delaney, Carol
Publisher:
Routledge
Subject:
General
Subject:
Anthropology
Subject:
Power (Social sciences)
Subject:
Feminist theory
Subject:
Kinship
Subject:
Power (Social sciences) -- Congresses.
Subject:
Feminist theory -- Congresses.
Publication Date:
October 1994
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
9.01x6.05x.71 in. .98 lbs.

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