1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology

Edited By Pamela L. Geller Copyright 2025
568 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

568 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

568 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology is a comprehensive inter- and intradisciplinary survey of the field of feminist anthropology. It has at its core a focus on raising consciousness and communicating information about gender inequities, suffering, and precarity, as well as furthering a praxis informed by intersectionality, decolonial intent, and compassion. Divided into three... Read more

PART 1

Consciousness-raising

On resisting violence

1 Sexual violence as professional misconduct in the practice of anthropology

M. Gabriela Torres

2 Sexual harassment in archaeology: Taking stock and moving forward

Amber M. VanDerwarker

3 Neocolonialism and palaeoanthropology: Reflections on privilege, practice and safety

Rebecca R. Ackermann

4 Whisper networks and woke networks

Anna Babel and Ashlee Dauphinais Civitello

5 Gender, violence, and memory

Shahla Talebi

6 Feminicide/femicide: A global crisis

Brigittine M. French

On communicating creatively

7 Feminism and digital archaeology

Katherine Cook

8 Ethnographic poetry as a decolonial feminist praxis

Ather Zia

9 Visualizing ethnography: Feminist praxis in anthropological film

Ethnocine Collective

10 Comics, graphic novels, and feminism

Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan

PART II

Precarity

On labor

11 Demystifying the sexual division of labor: A look from human evolution

Danae G. Khorasani and Sang-Hee Lee

12 Trauma and past lives

Rebecca C. Redfern and Linda Fibiger

13 The historical archaeology of sex work

Kristen R. Fellows

14 Unveiling the engima of culture: Reflections on gendered precarious work in China and Japan

Huiyan Fu

15 The gendered globalization of labor

Carla Freeman and Hunter Akridge

On migration and displacement

16 Global mobilities, intimate moments: Embodying nineteenth-century domestic labor

Alanna L. Warner-Smith

17 Blood, mud, and mucking around with waste: Properties of reworlding postindustrial space

Shannon A. Novak

18 Feminist takes and contributions to refugee and displacement studies

Katarzyna Grabska

19 Discourse and the gendered racialization of displacement

Hilary Parsons Dick, Júlia Da Silva, Madeline Lynch, and Maria Terrinoni

On health and disease

20 Increased female mortality after environmental disaster: Perspectives from primate studies

Alison M. Behie

21 Feminist anthropology and epidemics

Shelley Lees

22 “Studying up” health inequities

Sandhya Ganapthy

23 Reframing old bones and old stories: Gendered patterns of health and disease in the past

Sabrina C. Agarwal

On reproduction

24 Mothers and infants: Materializing maternal health and reproductive loss in the past

Rebecca Gowland

25 Reproductive oppression at the intersections: An archaeology of Hollywood Plantation

Jodi A. Barnes

26 Perspectives on intersectionality from public health and medical anthropology to promote health equity and reproductive justice

Annie Preaux and Arachu Castro

27 Racial disparities and racism in reproductive experiences

Chiara Quagliariello,Veronica Miranda, and Mounia El Kotni

28 Technology, health, and gender

Cecilia McCallum, Ana Paula dos Reis, and Mariana Pitta Lima

PART III

Praxis

On intersectionality

29 Archaeology, intersectionally: Past lives and present-day sociopolitics

Anna S. Agbe-Davies

30 Ethnographing intersectional inequalities

Carmen Gregorio Gil and Mara Viveros-Vigoya

31 On disinheritance, intersectionality, and environment: Zora Neale Huston’s Florida Writers’ Project fieldnotes

Sarah E. Vaughn

On decolonial work

32 Mothering in the decolonial moment

Ziyanda Majombozi

33 Decolonizing masculinities

Sakhumzi Mfecane

34 Decolonizing methods in feminist ethnography: Reflections from Andean Peru and coastal Ecuador

Florence E. Babb and Maja Jeranko

Index

Biography

Pamela L. Geller is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Miami, USA. She is the author of The Bioarchaeology of Social-Sexual Lives: Queering Common Sense about Sex, Gender, and Sexuality (2017), Theorizing Bioarchaeology (2021), and Becoming Object: The Sociopolitics of the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection (2024). Geller also writes for lay audiences; her essays have appeared in Slate, Miami Herald, and The New York Times.