ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |88 pages
American Kinship and the Facts of Life
part |63 pages
The Birds and the Bees: An Uncontrolled Comparison
part |62 pages
The Origin of Nations
part |62 pages
The American Dream: Gender, Class and Ethnicity