A Passion for Difference: Essays in Anthropology and Gender

190 Pages·1994·13.489 MB·English

by  Henrietta L. Moore

A Passion for Difference

A Passion for Difference
Essays in Anthropology and Gender
HENRIETTA L. MOORE
Polity Press
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In memory
of
my mother
Josephine Moore
(1934–1993)

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Viii
INTRODUCTION: A PASSION FOR DIFFERENCE 1
1 THE DIVISIONS WITHIN: SEX, GENDER AND
SEXUAL DIFFERENCE 8
2 EMBODIED SELVES: DIALOGUES BETWEEN
ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS 28
3 FANTASIES OF POWER AND FANTASIES OF IDENTITY:
GENDER, RACE AND VIOLENCE 49
4 BODIES ON THE MOVE: GENDER, POWER AND
MATERIAL CULTURE 71
5 SOCIAL IDENTITIES AND THE POLITICS OF
REPRODUCTION 86
6 MASTER NARRATIVES: ANTHROPOLOGY AND WRITING 107
7 THE FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGIST AND THE PASSION(S)
OF NEW EVE 129
NOTES 151
REFERENCES 159
INDEX 170
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book was produced during a period of leave from the London
School of Economics made possible by a grant from the Leverhulme
Trust. The Trust generously funded a project on The Development
of Models for the Analysis of Gender in the Social Sciences' from
1 January to 31 December 1993. I am indebted to both institutions
for their help and financial support.
Chapter 1 was originally published in Feminist Review, vol. 47,
1994, as 'Divided we stand: sex, gender and sexuality'.
Chapter 2 is a revised version of an article originally published as
'Gendered persons: dialogues between anthropology and psycho
analysis' in Suzette Heald and Ariane Deluz (eds), Anthropology and
Psychoanalysis: An Encounter through Culture, London: Routledge,
1994.
Parts of chapter 3 originally appeared in 'The problem of explain
ing violence in the social sciences' in Peter Gow and Penelope
Harvey (eds), Sex and Violence: Issues in Representation and Experience,
London: Routledge, 1994.
Chapter 5 is a substantially revised version of an article originally
published as 'Gender and the modelling of the economy' in Sutti
Ortiz and Susan Lees (eds), Understanding Economic Process,
Lanham: University Press of America, 1993.
Chapter 6 was originally published in Maurice Biriotti and
Nicola Miller (eds), What is an Author?, Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 1993.