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• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I Discovering Women across Cultures
• Introduction
• 1 Belief and the Problem of Women and the ‘Problem’ Revisited
• 2 A Note on the Division of Labor by Sex
• 3 Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?
• 4 The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘‘Political Economy’’ of Sex
• 5 The Use and Abuse of Anthropology: Reflections on Feminism
• 6 Toward a Unified Theory of Class, Race, and Gender
• Part II Questioning Positionality
• Introduction
• 7 Writing against Culture
• 8 My Best Informant’s Dress: The Erotic Equation in Fieldwork
• 9 Feminist Insider Dilemmas: Constructing Ethnic Identity with
• 10 Contingent Stories of Anthropology, Race, and Feminism
• Part III Confronting the USA
• Introduction
• 11 Bringing the Family to Work: Women’s Culture on the Shop Floor
• 12 Procreation Stories: Reproduction, Nurturance, and Procreation
• 13 Ethnically Correct Dolls: Toying with the Race Industry
• 14 Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic
• Part IV Maintaining Commitments
• Introduction
• 15 Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender
• 16 Women’s Rights are Human Rights: The Merging of Feminine and
• 17 Searching for ‘‘Voices’’: Feminism, Anthropology,
• 18 Imagining the Unborn in the Ecuadoran Andes
• Part V Interpreting Instability and Fluidity
• Introduction
• 19 ‘‘Like a Mother to Them’’: Stratified Reproduction and
• 20 Femininity and Flexible Labor: Fashioning Class through Gender
• 21 Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity
• 22 ‘‘What’s Identity Got to Do with It?’’: Rethinking Identity in
• Index