ELLEN LEWIN is a professor of gender, women’s, and sexuality studies and anthropology at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.  She is the author or coeditor of several books including Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture and Out in Public: Reinventing Lesbian/Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World.   LENI M. SILVERSTEIN is an anthropologist and international reproductive health professional who founded the consulting firm Strategies for Development. She has consulted with foundations (Ashoka, Ford, MacArthur), government officials, multilateral agencies, and commercial enterprises, providing technical assistance and evaluations for health sectors.

"This rich, well-written, timely set of essays should be required reading for courses about feminist anthropology, the history of gender and women's studies, and those that treat activism in the range of arenas inflected by gender and sexuality and are mapped in constantly shifting ways across human political, sociocultural, and environmental realities ... Summing up: Essential." (Choice) "A very fine and welcome addition to the field.” - Carla Freeman (Emory University) "A fresh mapping of feminist anthropology, with outstanding contributions ranging from body politics to transnationalism. The time is right for this smart and engaging collection." - Florence E. Babb (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "The volume's strongest contributions are those in which authors ground feminist theories with ethnographic data to impel social justice." (Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute) "This collection is a valuable and encouraging set of meditations on that question and a call for feminist anthropologists to continue embracing their vexations." (American Ethnologist) "The Top 75 Community College Titles: January Edition: The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the January issue of Choice." (Choice)

• AcknowledgmentsPrologueRayna R. RappIntroduction. Anthropologies and Feminisms: Mapping Our Intellectual JourneyLeni M. Silverstein and Ellen LewinPart I Foundations: Problematizing Feminist AnthropologyFeminist Anthropology Engages Social Movements: Theory, Ethnography, and ActivismLouise LamphereFeminist Linguistics and Linguistic FeminismsElise KramerThe Curious Relationship of Feminist Anthropology and Women’s StudiesA. Lynn BollesPart II Expansions: Confronting UniversalsWhen Nature/Culture Implodes: Feminist Anthropology and BiotechnologyElizabeth F. S. RobertsConceptions of Contraceptions: Feminist Anthropological Perspectives on Men, Women, and Reproductive Health in Two K’iche’ Maya CommunitiesMatthew R. DudgeonThe Body and Embodiment in the History of Feminist Anthropology: An Idiosyncratic Excursion through BinariesFrances E. Mascia-LeesDiscipline and Desire: Feminist Politics, Queer Studies, and New Queer AnthropologyMargot WeissPart III Reverberations: Transnational EncountersA Greater Measure of Justice: Gender, Violence, and ReparationsKimberly TheidonCooking with Firewood: Deep Meaning and Environmental Materialities in a Globalized WorldMeena KhandelwalFeminist Anthropology: Approaching Domestic Violence in Northern Viet NamLynn KwiatkowskiStudying Gender and Neoliberalism Transnationally: Implications for Theory and ActionCatherine KingfisherEpilogueTom BoellstorffNotes on ContributorsIndex

ELLEN LEWIN is a professor of gender, women’s, and sexuality studies and anthropology at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.  She is the author or coeditor of several books including Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture and Out in Public: Reinventing Lesbian/Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World.   LENI M. SILVERSTEIN is an anthropologist and international reproductive health professional who founded the consulting firm Strategies for Development. She has consulted with foundations (Ashoka, Ford, MacArthur), government officials, multilateral agencies, and commercial enterprises, providing technical assistance and evaluations for health sectors.

"This rich, well-written, timely set of essays should be required reading for courses about feminist anthropology, the history of gender and women's studies, and those that treat activism in the range of arenas inflected by gender and sexuality and are mapped in constantly shifting ways across human political, sociocultural, and environmental realities ... Summing up: Essential." (Choice) "A very fine and welcome addition to the field.” - Carla Freeman (Emory University) "A fresh mapping of feminist anthropology, with outstanding contributions ranging from body politics to transnationalism. The time is right for this smart and engaging collection." - Florence E. Babb (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "The volume's strongest contributions are those in which authors ground feminist theories with ethnographic data to impel social justice." (Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute) "This collection is a valuable and encouraging set of meditations on that question and a call for feminist anthropologists to continue embracing their vexations." (American Ethnologist) "The Top 75 Community College Titles: January Edition: The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the January issue of Choice." (Choice)

• AcknowledgmentsPrologueRayna R. RappIntroduction. Anthropologies and Feminisms: Mapping Our Intellectual JourneyLeni M. Silverstein and Ellen LewinPart I Foundations: Problematizing Feminist AnthropologyFeminist Anthropology Engages Social Movements: Theory, Ethnography, and ActivismLouise LamphereFeminist Linguistics and Linguistic FeminismsElise KramerThe Curious Relationship of Feminist Anthropology and Women’s StudiesA. Lynn BollesPart II Expansions: Confronting UniversalsWhen Nature/Culture Implodes: Feminist Anthropology and BiotechnologyElizabeth F. S. RobertsConceptions of Contraceptions: Feminist Anthropological Perspectives on Men, Women, and Reproductive Health in Two K’iche’ Maya CommunitiesMatthew R. DudgeonThe Body and Embodiment in the History of Feminist Anthropology: An Idiosyncratic Excursion through BinariesFrances E. Mascia-LeesDiscipline and Desire: Feminist Politics, Queer Studies, and New Queer AnthropologyMargot WeissPart III Reverberations: Transnational EncountersA Greater Measure of Justice: Gender, Violence, and ReparationsKimberly TheidonCooking with Firewood: Deep Meaning and Environmental Materialities in a Globalized WorldMeena KhandelwalFeminist Anthropology: Approaching Domestic Violence in Northern Viet NamLynn KwiatkowskiStudying Gender and Neoliberalism Transnationally: Implications for Theory and ActionCatherine KingfisherEpilogueTom BoellstorffNotes on ContributorsIndex

ELLEN LEWIN is a professor of gender, women’s, and sexuality studies and anthropology at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.  She is the author or coeditor of several books including Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture and Out in Public: Reinventing Lesbian/Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World.   LENI M. SILVERSTEIN is an anthropologist and international reproductive health professional who founded the consulting firm Strategies for Development. She has consulted with foundations (Ashoka, Ford, MacArthur), government officials, multilateral agencies, and commercial enterprises, providing technical assistance and evaluations for health sectors.

"This rich, well-written, timely set of essays should be required reading for courses about feminist anthropology, the history of gender and women's studies, and those that treat activism in the range of arenas inflected by gender and sexuality and are mapped in constantly shifting ways across human political, sociocultural, and environmental realities ... Summing up: Essential." (Choice) "A very fine and welcome addition to the field.” - Carla Freeman (Emory University) "A fresh mapping of feminist anthropology, with outstanding contributions ranging from body politics to transnationalism. The time is right for this smart and engaging collection." - Florence E. Babb (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "The volume's strongest contributions are those in which authors ground feminist theories with ethnographic data to impel social justice." (Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute) "This collection is a valuable and encouraging set of meditations on that question and a call for feminist anthropologists to continue embracing their vexations." (American Ethnologist) "The Top 75 Community College Titles: January Edition: The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the January issue of Choice." (Choice)

• AcknowledgmentsPrologueRayna R. RappIntroduction. Anthropologies and Feminisms: Mapping Our Intellectual JourneyLeni M. Silverstein and Ellen LewinPart I Foundations: Problematizing Feminist AnthropologyFeminist Anthropology Engages Social Movements: Theory, Ethnography, and ActivismLouise LamphereFeminist Linguistics and Linguistic FeminismsElise KramerThe Curious Relationship of Feminist Anthropology and Women’s StudiesA. Lynn BollesPart II Expansions: Confronting UniversalsWhen Nature/Culture Implodes: Feminist Anthropology and BiotechnologyElizabeth F. S. RobertsConceptions of Contraceptions: Feminist Anthropological Perspectives on Men, Women, and Reproductive Health in Two K’iche’ Maya CommunitiesMatthew R. DudgeonThe Body and Embodiment in the History of Feminist Anthropology: An Idiosyncratic Excursion through BinariesFrances E. Mascia-LeesDiscipline and Desire: Feminist Politics, Queer Studies, and New Queer AnthropologyMargot WeissPart III Reverberations: Transnational EncountersA Greater Measure of Justice: Gender, Violence, and ReparationsKimberly TheidonCooking with Firewood: Deep Meaning and Environmental Materialities in a Globalized WorldMeena KhandelwalFeminist Anthropology: Approaching Domestic Violence in Northern Viet NamLynn KwiatkowskiStudying Gender and Neoliberalism Transnationally: Implications for Theory and ActionCatherine KingfisherEpilogueTom BoellstorffNotes on ContributorsIndex