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The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology is a comprehensive inter- and intradisciplinary survey of feminist anthropology. Essential reading for students, researchers, and instructors in anthropology, it will also interest those in related disciplines such as gender studies, biomedicine, sociology, geography, and science.
List of contents
PART I Consciousness-raising; On resisting violence; 1. Sexual violence as professional misconduct in the practice of anthropology
M. Gabriela Torres; 2 Sexual harassment in archaeology: Taking stock and moving forward
Amber M. VanDerwarker; 3Neocolonialism and palaeoanthropology: Reflections on privilege, practice and safety
Rebecca R. Ackermann; 4 Whisper networks and woke networks
Anna Babel and Ashlee Dauphinais Civitello; 5 Gender, violence, and memory
Shahla Talebi; 6 Feminicide/femicide: A global crisis
Brigittine M. French;On communicating creatively; 7 Feminism and digital archaeology
Katherine Cook; 8 Ethnographic poetry as a decolonial feminist praxis
Ather Zia; 9 Visualizing ethnography: Feminist praxis in anthropological film
Ethnocine Collective; 10 Comics, graphic novels, and feminism
Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan;
PART II Precarity; On labor;11 Demystifying the sexual division of labor: A look from human evolution
Danae G. Khorasani and Sang-Hee Lee; 12 Trauma and past lives
Rebecca C. Redfern and Linda Fibiger; 13 The historical archaeology of sex work
Kristen R. Fellows; 14 Unveiling the engima of culture: Reflections on gendered precarious work in China and Japan
Huiyan Fu; 15 The gendered globalization of labor
Carla Freeman and Hunter Akridge;On migration and displacement;16 Global mobilities, intimate moments: Embodying nineteenth-century domestic labor
Alanna L. Warner-Smith; 17 Blood, mud, and mucking around with waste: Properties of reworlding postindustrial space
Shannon A. Novak; 18 Feminist takes and contributions to refugee and displacement studies
Katarzyna Grabska; 19 Discourse and the gendered racialization of displacement
Hilary Parsons Dick, Júlia Da Silva, Madeline Lynch, and Maria Terrinoni; On health and disease; 20 Increased female mortality after environmental disaster: Perspectives from primate studies
Alison M. Behie;21 Feminist anthropology and epidemics
Shelley Lees; 22 "Studying up" health inequities
Sandhya Ganapthy; 23 Reframing old bones and old stories: Gendered patterns of health and disease in the past
Sabrina C. Agarwal; On reproduction; 24 Mothers and infants: Materializing maternal health and reproductive loss in the past
Rebecca Gowland; 25 Reproductive oppression at the intersections: An archaeology of Hollywood Plantation
Jodi A. Barnes; 26 Perspectives on intersectionality from public health and medical anthropology to promote health equity and reproductive justice
Annie Preaux and Arachu Castro; 27 Racial disparities and racism in reproductive experiences
Chiara Quagliariello,Veronica Miranda, and Mounia El Kotni; 28 Technology, health, and gender
Cecilia McCallum, Ana Paula dos Reis, and Mariana Pitta Lima;
PART III Praxis; On intersectionality
; 29 Archaeology, intersectionally: Past lives and present-day sociopolitics
Anna S. Agbe-Davies; 30 Ethnographing intersectional inequalities
Carmen Gregorio Gil and Mara Viveros-Vigoya; 31 On disinheritance, intersectionality, and environment: Zora Neale Huston's Florida Writers' Project fieldnotes
Sarah E. Vaughn; On decolonial work; 32 Mothering in the decolonial moment
Ziyanda Majombozi; 33 Decolonizing masculinities
Sakhumzi Mfecane; 34 Decolonizing methods in feminist ethnography: Reflections from Andean Peru and coastal Ecuador
Florence E. Babb and Maja Jeranko
About the author
Pamela L. Geller is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Miami, USA. She is the author of The Bioarchaeology of Social-Sexual Lives: Queering Common Sense about Sex, Gender, and Sexuality (2017), Theorizing Bioarchaeology (2021), and Becoming Object: The Sociopolitics of the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection (2024). Geller also writes for lay audiences; her essays have appeared in Slate, Miami Herald, and The New York Times.
Summary
The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology is a comprehensive inter- and intradisciplinary survey of feminist anthropology. Essential reading for students, researchers, and instructors in anthropology, it will also interest those in related disciplines such as gender studies, biomedicine, sociology, geography, and science.
