There are two recent books with the title "Women Writing Culture" (that I know of). One is edited by Gary A. Olsen and Elizabeth Hirsch, and another is edited by Ruth Behar and Deborah A. Gordon. The former is about women, writing and culture, and the essays "explore how women write culture through various post-modern discourses in which they engage. The latter points to the relationship between "the native woman somewhere else who doesn't write" and the woman anthropologist, who, according to Behar and Gordon is not only a "woman who is turning others into the object of her gaze," but also "is herself already an object." Although fascinated by the idea of cyborg-writing, my own approach to the so-called radical expressive possibilities offered by how technologies is tempered by various levels of skepticism. My interest in women writing culture arises from concerns discussed in the latter anthology. The desire to `accept rather than to annihilate...a confusing diversity of visions' and yet an attempt to bring to my work a feminist perspective (I am not implying that the two are mutually exclusive)- this has been my own struggle and is - as I continue writing my dissertation. This does sometimes lead me to consider the possibilities of cyborg-writing and cyborg-heteroglossia.
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I would like to this discussion list to focus on women ethnographers/anthropologists (and their work, of course) - well-known and not so well-known and the problems and challenges we encounter in the course of our attempts to "write culture" or even to write "against culture". It might be a good idea for every new member to submit a few paragraphs describing his/her interests in this area. Occasionally, depending on member-interaction and opinion, we might try and have a group reading of relevant works.
Men are not excluded, nor are they/you expected to keep silent and "let" the women "speak", while you lurk with the best of intentions towards women scholars.
This list is open to all, but rude, sexist , racist and lewd comments WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. I cannot ensure that this will be a flame-free zone, or a "private" space. Like all archives of Spoon lists, the archives for this list will be placed at a website.
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