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Since the late 60's radical feminists have laboured to articulate a
vision of the world in which all women would be safe, and all women
acknowledged as human beings in their own right. Their projects
included establishing women's refuges, rape crisis centres, health
centres, organizing against pornography and developing courses in
Women's Studies. Their practice and the theory of radical feminism
is often misrepresented or unknown. This book features 70 writers
from every continent discussing their ideas and practice of
contemporary feminism.
Virtually all anthropologists undertaking fieldwork experience
emotional difficulties in relating their own personal culture to
the field culture. The issue of gender arises because ethnographers
do fieldwork by establishing relationships, and this is done as a
person of a particular age, sexual orientation, belief, educational
background, ethnic identity and class. In particular it is done as
men and women. Gendered Fields examines and explores the progress
of feminist anthropology, the gendered nature of fieldwork itself,
and the articulation of gender with other aspects of the self of
the ethnographer.
"Namawi rawul-inyeri thulun-ar: Our footprints [come] from the
past. From our ancestors to us, we are the traditional owners,
still guiding our young ones, connecting the Stolen Generations
back to family and country, standing strong in our history and
culture and heritage", announce these remarkable Ngarrindjeri
miminar. Ngarrindjeri came to prominence in the 1990s with the
Hindmarsh Island Bridge affair. Labelled "liars" in 1995 by a South
Australian Royal Commission then vindicated in the Federal Court in
2001 as "truth-tellers", these Ngarrindjeri miminar have much to be
angry about. But, they also have stories to tell about their lives
and their visions for the future. Here they take us into their
world of caring for their country, their families and their nation.
What are our needs? What do we want to address our needs? Where are
we going? What does the future hold for us, our children, our
grandchildren, our young women? Their stories will charm and
delight and their stories will jar and shock. They ask that you
Kungun, listen, to their Yunnan, speaking.
'Sex, silence and sin', this is what newly appointed professor, Dee
P Scrutari, writes in her notebook as she turns her anthropological
gaze on the tribe of 'non-reproducing males' who dominate St
Jude's, a prestigious Jesuit liberal arts college in the north east
of the US. Something is awry. What happened to the previous
occupant of her newly painted office? Professor Scrutari's
fieldwork begins. Her notebooks fill. The mystery mounts:
disturbing odours, turbulent faculty meetings, a strange ginger
cat, tenure politics and intrigue. The mix is enriched by secret
student alliances, predatory priests, the end of a marriage and a
new love, a faction-ridden Religious Studies department, a radical
mass and a dissident feminist liturgy. The determined
anthropologist doodles and decodes the symbols and signs of evil as
she teams up with a band of colleagues marginalised by the
department -- a liberation theology nun, a gay priest, and a Jew --
and three feisty women students. They strategize and sleuth as they
attempt to solve a number of campus mysteries. "Evil", Dee
declares, "is visceral, pervasive, subtle, not an abstract conceit
at all." Evil is about now. 'Evil' is a novel full of vivid
characters you know, or want to know. At once funny, witty,
sobering, profound and provocative, full of affection for the
academic world Diane Bell so lovingly describes, and is concerned
to nurture against the darker forces she seeks to identify and
expose.
An outstanding study of Aboriginal women's lives. Living in the
community, developing friendships which spanned decades, Diane Bell
shines a light on the importance of women's role in Australian
Aboriginal desert culture. As maintainers of land, ritual and
culture, indigenous women of central Australia share the patterns
of their lives in this remarkable and enduring book. Diane Bell was
controversial in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and remains so today. Not
everyone agrees with her but she demands to be read.
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