The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology is a comprehensive inter- and intradisciplinary survey of the field of feminist anthropology. It has at its core a focus on raising consciousness and communicating information about gender inequities, suffering, and precarity, as well as furthering a praxis informed by intersectionality, decolonial intent, and compassion.
Divided into three clear parts and comprising 34 chapters by an international team of contributors, The Handbook addresses topics in the following key areas:
- resisting violence
- communicating creatively
- labor
- migration and displacement
- health and disease
- reproduction
- intersectionality
- decolonial work.
The collection assesses the field at an interesting moment in time—one defined by social justice and populist movements gone global; once and future pandemics; extreme environmental disasters; and neoliberalism interrupted. How do gender, sex, and sexuality intersect with these phenomena? In answer, contributors to this volume put a heterogeneous anthropological approach in place; they advance interdisciplinary conversations, as well as renew a commitment to intradisciplinary dialogue.
The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology is essential reading for students, researchers, and instructors in anthropology, and will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as gender studies, queer studies, economics, biomedicine, political science, sociology, geography, and science and technology studies.
A comprehensive inter- and intradisciplinary survey of the field of feminist anthropology. Essential reading for students, researchers, and instructors in anthropology, and will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as gender studies, queer studies, economics, biomedicine, political science, sociology, geography.
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; 3 Neocolonialism 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 enigma 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 Hustons
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
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.
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