Naturalizing Power: Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis

by Sylvia Yanagisako (Editor), Carol Delaney (Editor)

Overview

This collection of essays analyzes relations of social inequality that appear to be logical extensions of a "natural order" and in the process demonstrates that a revitalized feminist anthropology of the 1990s has much to offer the field of feminist theory. Contributors:Susan McKinnon, Kath Weston, Rayna Rapp, Janet Dolgin, Harriet Whitehead, Carol Delaney, Brackette Williams, Sylvia Yanagisako, Phyllis Chock, Sherry Ortner and Anna Tsing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415908849
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/28/1994
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sylvia Yanagisako and Carol Delaney are both in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University.

Table of Contents

Part 1 American Kinship and the Facts of Life; Chapter 1 American Kinship/American Incest: Asymmetries in a Scientific Discourse, Susan McKinnon; Chapter 2 Family Law and the Facts of Family, Janet L. Dolgin; Chapter 3 Heredity, or: Revising the Facts of Life, Rayna Rapp; Chapter 4 Forever Is a Long Time: Romancing the Real in Gay Kinship Ideologies, Kath Weston; Part 2 The Birds and the Bees: An Uncontrolled Comparison; Chapter 5 Empowering Nature, or: Some Gleanings in Bee Culture, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing; Chapter 6 The Gender of Birds in a Mountain Ok Culture, Harriet Whitehead; Part 3 The Origin of Nations; Chapter 7 Father State, Motherland, and the Birth of Modern Turkey, CarolDelaney; Chapter 8 Classification Systems Revisited: Kinship, Caste, Race, and Nationality as the Flow of Blood and the Spread of Rights, Brackette F. Williams; Part 4 The American Dream: Gender, Class and Ethnicity; Chapter 9 “The Self-Made Woman”: Gender and the Success Story in Greek-American Family Histories, Phyllis Pease Chock; Chapter 10 Ethnography Among the Newark: The Class of ’58 of Weequahic High School, Sherry B. Ortner; Chapter 11 Transforming Orientalism: Gender, Nationality, and Class in Asian American Studies, Sylvia Yanagisako;