A Passion for Difference: Essays in Anthropology and Gender - Softcover

Moore, Henrietta L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 025320951X ISBN 13: 9780253209511

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1995

Synopsis

In this new book Henrietta Moore examines the limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about sex, gender, and sexuality. Moore begins by discussing recent feminist debates on the body and the notion of the non-universal human subject. She then considers why anthropologists have contributed relatively little to these debates, suggesting that this reflects the history of anthropology's conceptualization of ""persons"" or ""selves"" cross-culturally. The author also pursues a series of related themes, including the links between gender, identity, and violence; the construction of domestic space and its relationship to bodily practices and the internalization of relations of difference; and the links between the gender of the anthropologist and the writing of anthropology. By developing a specific anthropological approach to feminist post-structuralist and psychoanalytic theory, Moore demonstrates anthropology's contribution to current debates in feminist theory.

About this title

About the Author:

HENRIETTA MOORE, Reader in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics, is author of Feminism and Anthropology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 025320951X
• ISBN 13: 9780253209511
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186