ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on gendered conditions of fieldwork, as the journeys and explorations that anthropologists undertake are not gender-neutral; they are, on the contrary, based on gendered models of the world and the subject, as well as interaction shaped by gendered identities. In the context of urban anthropology, it is therefore relevant to ask whether women and men experience fieldwork in cities differently and what kind of gendered space urban areas constitute. The female anthropologist is both an invisible flneuse and an anthropologist who stepped off the verandah. Janet Wolff has convincingly argued that the literature on modernity describes the experience of men, whereas fieldwork and the ethnographies based on it embody women's experiences of the city, albeit often not explicitly so. In contesting the dominance of this division the female fieldworker displaces notions of appropriate behaviour, the place of a woman and the vulnerability of the female body, both during her research and her writing of the ethnography.
