1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology
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.
Introduction: Feminist Anthropology in Interesting Times Pamela L. Geller
Part 1: 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
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 feminist issues Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan
Part 2: 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. New twists in the gendered globalization of labor Carla Freeman and Hunter Akridge
On migration and displacement
16. Global mobilities, intimate movements: embodying nineteenth-century domestic labor Alanna L. Warner-Smith
17. Blood, mud, and mucking around in/with/of waste: properties of reworlding postindustrial space Shannon A. Novak
18. Feminist takes and contributions to refugee and displacement studies Katarzyna Grabska
19. Language and the co-construction of gender and race in contexts 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 Ganapathy
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 3: 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 Hurston’s 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.
Index
Biography
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 G. Morton Cranial Collection (2024). Geller also writes for lay audiences; her essays have appeared in Slate, Miami Herald, and The New York Times.
