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Dear All, I decided to keep the number of forwarded post to an absolute minimum over the summer so that your mailbaxes won't overflow while you are away from your computers. The one below, however, might be of interest to some of you. A.R. ---------- > From: Serguei Alex Oushakine <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Cc: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Feminist Fields - New Book > Date: 11 August 1999 01:44 > > ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- > Date sent: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 08:09:19 -0400 (EDT) > From: Heather Howard-Bobiwash <[log in to unmask]> > To: AFA listserv <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Feminist Fields - New Book > > Rae Bridgman, Sally Cole and I would like to announce the publication > of our new edited collection: > > *Feminist Fields: Ethnographic Insights,* Peterborough, Ont: Broadview > Press, 320 pages, US. 22.95, CDN. 29.95, UK. 14.95. ISBN: 1-55111-195-0. > Incl. Index and photos. > > For info and examination copies: tel: 705-743-8990, fax: 705-743-8353, > email: [log in to unmask] > > Feminist Fields offers a rich and varied portrait of both the current work > and future possibilities for dialogue between feminism and anthropology, > as well as reflection on the interdisciplinarity of ethnographic > practices. Contributors present critical analyses of a broad range of > ethnographic contexts: motherhood; "home" and homelessness; national > feminisms (Turkey, Nicaragua, China); ethnic identity and > ethnographic authority; community development; economic transition. key > areas covered are: the history of feminist anthropology; processes of > legitimation and the location of feminist theory in academic and the > "field" settings; change, transformation and women's work; the importance > of reflexivity in fieldwork practice, an ongoing interest in bringing > forward submerged perspectives; questions of text and representation. > Seventeen chapters represent the collaboration of North American scholars > with scholars from non-North American bases, mixes essays from established > and emerging scholars, and covers theory, field-based research and textual > experimentation. > > Heather Howard-Bobiwash > ****************************************** > Heather Howard-Bobiwash, M.A. > PhD Candidate, Sociocultural Anthropology > University of Toronto > 100 St. George Street, > Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G3 > > Toronto Native Community History Project > Resource Centre and Archive Coordinator > Native Canadian Centre of Toronto > 16 Spadina Rd., > Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5R 2S7 > phone: 416-964-9087, ext. 319 > fax: 416-413-0636 > e-mail: [log in to unmask] > ****************************************** %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%