Exotics at Home by Micaela Di Leonardo
Attempting to define the exotic, this text focuses on the shifting relations between popular portrayals of exotic "others" and the practice of anthropology, seeking to cast light on gender, race and the public sphere in America's history. It documents the ways in which constructions of "others", whether voiced by anthropologists, or merely attributed to them, have long been central to visions of modernity, of proper American lives and politics. The text examines the political and economic relations of inequality in cultural discourse - in advertisements, in cartoons, and in the representations of "dusky maidens"; in serious ethnography and New Age narratives; in the New Right's attack on cultural relativism and journalists' and scholars' accounts of American inner city "hearts of darkness"; and "tribal wars" in Africa and Europe.-
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Women, History, and Theory
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Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama
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Royal Representations
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The Weak Body of a Useless Woman
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Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition
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Publishing Women
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Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court
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Women Adrift
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Uneven Developments
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Virginia Woolf Icon
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Oglala Women
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Civilization without Sexes
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Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection
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Making Gray Gold
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Africa Wo/Man Palava
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Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937
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Respectability and Deviance
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Higher Ground
Di Leonardo, Micaela: - Micaela di Leonardo is a consultant with the National Academy of Sciences and has taught at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780226472638 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226472639 |
| Title | Exotics at Home |
| Author | Micaela Di Leonardo |
| Series | Women In Culture And Society |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 1998-06-03 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |