11. WRITING AGAINST THE GRAIN: CULTURAL POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE IN THE WORK OF ALICE WALKER

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface and Acknowledgments XI
4. INTRODUCTION: OUT OF EXILE 1
5. Part I: Beyond Self and Other
6. Picture 32
7. I. PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION 33
8. 2. BAD GIRLS: THEATER, WOMEN OF COLOR, AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION 49
9. 3. WRITING IN MY FATHER'S NAME: A DIARY OF TRANSLATED WOMAN'S FIRST YEAR 65
10. Part II: Another History, Another Canon
11. Picture 84
12. 4. FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY: THE LEGACY OF ELSIE CLEWS PARSONS 85
13. 5. "NOT IN THE ABSOLUTE SINGULAR": REREADING RUTH BENEDICT 104
14. 6. ELLA CARA DELORIA AND MOURNING DOVE: WRITING FOR CULTURES, WRITING AGAINST THE GRAIN 131
15. 7. MULTIPLE SUBJECTIVITIES AND STRATEGIC POSITIONALITY: ZORA NEALE HURSTON'S EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHIES 148
16. 8. RUTH LANDES AND THE EARLY ETHNOGRAPHY OF RACE AND GENDER 166
17. 9. MARGARET MEAD AND THE "RUSTLING-OF-THE-WIND-IN-THE-PALM-TREES SCHOOL" OF ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING 186
18. 10. THE ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS OF BARBARA G. MYERHOFF: ANTHROPOLOGY, FEMINISM, AND THE POLITICS OF JEWISH IDENTITY 207
19. 11. WRITING AGAINST THE GRAIN: CULTURAL POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE IN THE WORK OF ALICE WALKER 233
20. Part III: Does Anthropology Have a Sex?
21. Picture 248
22. 12. THE GENDER OF THEORY 249
23. 13. WORKS AND WIVES: ON THE SEXUAL DIVISION OF TEXTUAL LABOR 267
24. 14. MS. REPRESENTATIONS: REFLECTIONS ON STUDYING ACADEMIC MEN 287
25. 15. "MAN'S DARKEST HOURS": MALENESS, TRAVEL, AND ANTHROPOLOGY 306
26. 16. WRITING LESBIAN ETHNOGRAPHY 322
27. Part IV: Traveling Feminists
28. Picture 338
29. 17. A TALE OF TWO PREGNANCIES 339
30. 18. WOMEN OUT OF CHINA: TRAVELING TALES AND TRAVELING THEORIES IN POSTCOLONIAL FEMINISM 350
31. 19. BORDER WORK: FEMINIST ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE DISSEMINATION OF LITERACY 373
32. 20. IN DIALOGUE?READING ACROSS MINORITY DISCOURSES 390
33. 21. BORDER POETS: TRANSLATING BY DIALOGUES 412
34. CONCLUSION: CULTURE WRITING WOMEN: INSCRIBING FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY 429
35. Notes on Contributors 443
36. Index 447