| Description |
x, 310 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Naturalizing Power / Sylvia Yanagisako and Carol Delaney -- 1. American Kinship/American Incest: Asymmetries in a Scientific Discourse / Susan McKinnon -- 2. Family Law and the Facts of Family / Janet L. Dolgin -- 3. Heredity, or: Revising the Facts of Life / Rayna Rapp -- 4. Forever Is a Long Time: Romancing the Real in Gay Kinship Ideologies / Kath Weston -- 5. Empowering Nature, or: Some Gleanings in Bee Culture / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing -- 6. The Gender of Birds in a Mountain Ok Culture / Harriet Whitehead -- 7. Father State, Motherland, and the Birth of Modern Turkey / Carol Delaney -- 8. Classification Systems Revisited: Kinship, Caste, Race, and Nationality as the Flow of Blood and the Spread of Rights / Brackette F. Williams -- 9. "The Self Made Woman": Gender and the Success Story in Greek-American Family Histories / Phyllis Pease Chock -- 10. Ethnography Among the Newark: The Class of '58 of Weequahic High School / Sherry B. Ortner |
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11. Transforming Orientalism: Gender, Nationality, and Class in Asian American Studies / Sylvia Yanagisako |
| Analysis |
Feminism Related to Culture |
| Notes |
Based on papers presented at a symposium at the 1992 meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Feminist theory -- Congresses.
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Feminist theory.
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Kinship.
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Power (Social sciences)
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Kinship -- Congresses.
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Power (Social sciences) -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Delaney, Carol Lowery, 1940-
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Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko, 1945-
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American Anthropological Association. Meeting (1992 : San Francisco, Calif.)
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| LC no. |
94003573 |
| ISBN |
0415908833 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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0415908841 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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