| Description |
xii, 204 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
JSTOR EBA
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| Contents |
A Feminist Fable -- 1. Introduction: Fictions of Feminist Ethnography -- 2. Defining Feminist Ethnography -- 3. Betrayal: An Analysis in Three Acts -- 4. Refusing the Subject -- 5. Feminist Reflections on Deconstructive Ethnography -- 6. Feminist Ethnography as Failure -- 7. Identifying Ethnography -- 8. Introductions to a Diary -- 9. Sari Stories |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-202) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Feminist anthropology -- India.
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Women anthropologists -- Attitudes.
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Women -- India -- Social conditions.
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| Author |
ebrary, Inc.
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| LC no. |
93037216 |
| ISBN |
0195639154 |
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0816623368 |
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0816623376 |
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