| Description |
x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Fieldwork in the Home Counties: Double vision and dismantled identity -- 2. The self and scientism -- 3. Trading stereotypes -- 4. Gypsy women: Models in conflict -- 5. Fortune-tellers: Fakes or therapists -- 6. Women readers: Other utopias and own bodily knowledge -- 7. Girls and their bodies: The curriculum of the unconscious -- 8. Privileged, schooled and finished: Boarding education for girls -- 9. Re-reading The Second Sex -- 10. Defiant moments: Gender, resistance and individuals |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Anthropology -- Fieldwork.
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Anthropology -- Fieldwork.
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Anthropology -- Philosophy.
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Feminist anthropology.
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| LC no. |
95025985 |
| ISBN |
0415115124 (hbk) |
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0415115132 (paperback) |
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