These essays investigate the links between agency and race with regard to constructions of masculinity and femininity among radical groups resisting varied forms of political and economic domination. ********************************************************* * Building on the work of anthropologists, historians, sociologists, literary critics, and feminist philosophers of science, the essays in Women Out of Place: the Gender of Agency and Race of Nationality investigate the links between agency and race for what they reveal about constructions of masculinity and femininity and patterns of domesticity among groups seeking to resist varied forms of political and economic domination through a subnational ideology of racial and cultural redemption.
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Brackette Williams is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.
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- Nationalist Ideologies and the Production of National Cultures (American Ethnological Society Monograph) by Richard G. Fox on page 102, page 267, and page 269
- North America (Countries: Faces and Places) by Bob Temple on page 202, and page 223
- Gender Politics and Post-Communism: Reflections from Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (Thinking Gender) by Nanette Funk on page 181, and page 182
- Face to Face: Fathers, Mothers, Masters, Monsters--Essays for a Nonsexist Future (Contributions in Women's Studies) by Meg McGavran Murray on page 157, and page 212
- Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver on page 223, and page 243
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- Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and "Mail Order" Marriages by Nicole Constable on 4 pages
- The Grimace of Macho Raton: Artisans, Identity, and Nation in Late-Twentieth-Century Western Nicaragua by Les Field in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Nation and Citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1916 by Teresita MartÃnez-Vergne in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics by Irma McClaurin in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- Gender, Ethnicity and Place: Women and Identity in Guyana (Routledge Studies in Development and Society) by Linda Peake in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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