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.
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
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 engima 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 Huston’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 George Morton Cranial Collection (2024). Geller also writes for lay audiences; her essays have appeared in Slate, Miami Herald, and The New York Times.
