Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology

<p><i>The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology </i>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.</p><p>Divided into three clear parts and comprising 34 chapters by an international team of contributors the <em>Handbook</em> addresses topics in the following key areas:</p><ul> <li>resisting violence</li> <li>communicating creatively</li> <li>labor</li> <li>migration and displacement</li> <li>health and disease</li> <li>reproduction</li> <li>intersectionality</li> <li>decolonial work.</li> </ul><p>The collection assesses the field at an interesting moment in time—one defined by social justice and populist movements gone global; once and future pandemics; extreme environmental disasters; and neoliberalism interrupted. How do gender sex and sexuality intersect with these phenomena? In answer contributors to this volume put a heterogeneous anthropological approach in place; they advance interdisciplinary conversations as well as renew a commitment to intradisciplinary dialogue.</p><p><i>The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology </i>is essential reading for students researchers and instructors in anthropology and will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as gender studies queer studies economics biomedicine political science sociology geography and science and technology studies.</p>