Feminism and Anthropology
Feminist Perspectives
1. Edition September 1988
256 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
This is the first book which examines the nature and significance
of a feminist critique in anthropology. It offers a clear
introduction to, and balanced assessment of, the theoretical and
practical issues raised by the development of a feminist
anthropology.
Henrietta Moore situates the development of a feminist approach
in anthropology within the context of the discipline, examining the
ways in which women have been studied in anthropology - as well as
the ways in which the study of gender has influenced the
development of the discipline anthropology. She considers the
application of feminist work to key areas of anthropological
research, and addresses the question of what social anthropology
has to contribute to contemporary feminism.
Throughout the book Henrietta Moore's analysis is informed by
her own extensive fieldwork in Africa and by her concern to develop
anthropological theory and method by means of feminist critique.
This book will be of particular value to students in anthropology,
women's studies and the social sciences.
1. Feminism and Anthropology: The Story of a Relationship.
2. Gender and Status: Explaining the Position of Women.
3. Understanding Women's Work: Kinship, Labour and Household,
Part 1. 4. The Changing Nature of Women's Lives: Kinship, Labour
and Household, Part 2.
5. Women and the State.
6. Feminist Anthropology: What Difference Does It Make?.
Notes.
References.
Index.
'I do not know of any other work which gives one such a sense of
the scope and substance of feminist scholarship within
anthropology. This is no abstract debate about possibilities: with
rare intelligence Moore sanely and superbly charts what has already
been done and consequently what lies ahead. The book's breadth of
vision is generous, its approach authoritative, and its final
critique of the limitations as well as the promises of feminist
anthropology resounding' Marilyn Strathern, University of
Manchester
