1st Edition

Naturalizing Power Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis

Edited By Sylvia Yanagisako, Carol Delaney Copyright 1995

    This collection of essays analyzes relations of social inequality that appear to be logical extensions of a "natural order" and in the process demonstrates that a revitalized feminist anthropology of the 1990s has much to offer the field of feminist theory. Contributors:Susan McKinnon, Kath Weston, Rayna Rapp, Janet Dolgin, Harriet Whitehead, Carol Delaney, Brackette Williams, Sylvia Yanagisako, Phyllis Chock, Sherry Ortner and Anna Tsing.

    Part 1 American Kinship and the Facts of Life; Chapter 1 American Kinship/American Incest: Asymmetries in a Scientific Discourse, Susan McKinnon; Chapter 2 Family Law and the Facts of Family, Janet L. Dolgin; Chapter 3 Heredity, or: Revising the Facts of Life, Rayna Rapp; Chapter 4 Forever Is a Long Time: Romancing the Real in Gay Kinship Ideologies, Kath Weston; Part 2 The Birds and the Bees: An Uncontrolled Comparison; Chapter 5 Empowering Nature, or: Some Gleanings in Bee Culture, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing; Chapter 6 The Gender of Birds in a Mountain Ok Culture, Harriet Whitehead; Part 3 The Origin of Nations; Chapter 7 Father State, Motherland, and the Birth of Modern Turkey, CarolDelaney; Chapter 8 Classification Systems Revisited: Kinship, Caste, Race, and Nationality as the Flow of Blood and the Spread of Rights, Brackette F. Williams; Part 4 The American Dream: Gender, Class and Ethnicity; Chapter 9 “The Self-Made Woman”: Gender and the Success Story in Greek-American Family Histories, Phyllis Pease Chock; Chapter 10 Ethnography Among the Newark: The Class of ’58 of Weequahic High School, Sherry B. Ortner; Chapter 11 Transforming Orientalism: Gender, Nationality, and Class in Asian American Studies, Sylvia Yanagisako;

    Biography

    Sylvia Yanagisako and Carol Delaney are both in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University.