Full Description
Writing in the wake of neoliberalism, where human rights and social justice have increasingly been subordinated to proliferating "consumer choices" and ideals of market justice, contributors to this collection argue that feminist ethnographers are in a key position to reassert the central feminist connections between theory, methods, and activism. Together, we suggest avenues for incorporating methodological innovations, collaborative analysis, and collective activism in our scholarly projects. What are the possibilities (and challenges) that exist for feminist ethnography 25 years after initial debates emerged in this field about reflexivity, objectivity, reductive individualism, and the social relevance of activist scholarship? How can feminist ethnography intensify efforts towards social justice in the current political and economic climate? This collection continues a crucial dialog about feminist activist ethnography in the 21st century—at the intersection of engaged feminist research and activism in the service of the organizations, people, communities, and feminist issues we study.
Contents
Foreword: Navigating Feminist Activist Ethnography
Faye Harrison
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Feminist Activist Ethnography
Christa Craven and Dána-Ain Davis
Part 1: The Intimacies of Feminist Ethnography
1. Border Crossings: Intimacy and Feminist Activist Ethnography in the Age of Neoliberalism
Dána-Ain Davis
2. Learning Social Justice and Activist Ethnography from Women with Breast Cancer
Mary K. Anglin
3. Feminist Ethnography with Domestic Violence Shelter Advocates: Negotiating the Neoliberal Era
Jennifer R. Wies
Reflection: Fearlessly Engaging Complicity
Scott Lauria Morgensen
Part 2: Feminist Ethnographer as Critic
4. Seeking "Marriage Material": Rethinking the U.S. Marriage Debates Under Neoliberalism
Michelle Marzullo
5. Reproductive Rights in a Consumer Rights Era: Toward the Value of "Constructive" Critique
Christa Craven
6. Fracturing Feminism: Activist Research and Ethics in a Women's Human Rights NGO
Beth A. Uzwiak
Reflection: Committing to Change
Khiara M. Bridges
Part 3: Disruptive Strategies
7. Negotiating Different Worlds: An Integral Ethnography of Reproductive Freedom and Social Justice
Iris López
8. Women, Food, and Activism: Rediscovering Collectivist Action in an Individualized World
Tabitha Steager
9. Moving the Field: Young Black Women, Performances of Self, and Creative Protest in Postindustrial Spaces
Aimee Cox
10. The Neoliberal Institutional Review Board, or Why Just Fixing the Rules Won't Help Feminist (Activist) Ethnographers
Elizabeth Chin
Reflection: The Work That Remains
Gina Pérez
Closing Questions
Christa Craven, Dána-Ain Davis and Faye Harrison
References
Index
About the Contributors?
