Contesting Publics Feminism, Activism, Ethnography
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Biografisk notat
Lynne Phillips is Dean of Arts and Professor of Anthropology at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is co-author of Contesting Publics: Feminism, Activism, Ethnography (Pluto, 2014) and The Third Wave of Modernization in Latin America: Cultural Perspectives on Neoliberalism (1998). Sally Cole is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal. She is co-author of Contesting Publics: Feminism, Activism, Ethnography (Pluto, 2014) and author of Ruth Landes: A Life in Anthropology (2003).'This is a thought-provoking volume that promises to appeal to students and scholars, and also to a broader public of activists and intellectuals'
- Florence E. Babb, Vada Allen Yeomans Professor of Women's Studies, Affiliate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies, University of Florida,
'Breathes new life into the public/private debate, showing how it remains crucial to thinking about the lives of women'
- Lindsay DuBois, Associate Professor, Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University and author of The Politics of the Past in an Argentine Working-Class Neighbourhood (2005).,
Lynne Phillips and Sally Cole analyse how new silences, exclusions and re-inscriptions of inequalities have emerged alongside these new spaces of participation. They re-examine the relationship between public and private and address a larger theoretical question: what is the meaning of 'the public' within democracy projects?
Contesting Publics considers current debates among feminists from different generations on the merits of a variety of strategies, goals and issues, drawing out vital lessons for students, researchers and activists in anthropology, gender studies and Latin American studies.
Acknowledgements
Preface: Contesting Publics
1. Towards an Ethnography of Publics - Sally Cole and Lynne Phillips
2. Auto-Constructed Feminist Publics: Household Matters in Northeast Brazil - Sally Cole
Activist Testimony: Mariza
3. Saving Women? Awkward Alliances in the Public Spaces of Sex Tourism - Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan
Activist Testimony: Susana and Luísa
4. Feminism and 'Post-Neoliberal' Publics: Working the Spaces of Ecuador’s Constitutional Reform - Lynne Phillips
Activist Testimony: Cecilia
5. Gossip as Direct Action - Erica Lagalisse
6. A Pedagogical Conversation: Public Scholars and Public Scholarship - Sally Cole, Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan, Erica Lagalisse and Lynne Phillips
Notes
References
Index