Ruth Behar and Deborah A. Gordon, eds., Women Writing Culture, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995
Ruth Behar and Deborah A. Gordon, eds., Women Writing Culture, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995
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Barrientos, Melchor
Betancur, Cristopher
Betancur, Cristopher
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Datos de publicación:
Cultura, Hombre, Sociedad (CUHSO), Vol. 29, N°2, 315-349, 2019
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Ruth Behar - Deborah A. Gordon - Mujeres - Escritura - Women Writing Culture
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Abstract
Se presenta una interpretación en español de la introducción del libro Women Writing Culture. En este capítulo introductorio titulado en su versión original “Out of exile”, Ruth Behar, su autora, contextualiza a través de relatos y vivencias la constante lucha de las antropólogas para ser reconocidas en el ámbito académico, en el cual han sido muchas veces invisibilizadas por sus pares masculinos. Bajo este contexto nace “Women Writing Culture”, como una respuesta a la inexistente participación de mujeres antropólogas en el proyecto “Writing Culture” (escrito por hombres antropólogos). Women Writing Culture incorpora el punto de vista de aquellas que han sido marginadas, y
que han debido mantenerse a la sombra de los hombres a lo largo del devenir histórico.
En la introducción se presentan atisbos de cómo a lo largo del texto — mediante la experimentación de diferentes formas de escritura— se busca demostrar la capacidad de las mujeres para generar escritura antropológica, liberándolas del escrutinio constante de sus colegas y mentores masculinos, quienes las han considerado más bien el lado “blando” de la disciplina, incapaces de realizar un trabajo feminista y al mismo tiempo innovador
An interpretation in Spanish of the introduction of the book Women Writing Culture is presented. In this introductory chapter titled “Out of exile” in its original version, Ruth Behar, its author, contextualizes through stories and experiences the constant struggle of the woman anthropologists to be recognized in the academic field, in which they have been invisibilized by their male fellows. In this context “Women Writing Culture” is born as a response to the non-existent participation of women anthropologists in the “Writing Culture” project (written by male anthropologists). Women Writing Culture incorporates the point of view of those that have been marginalized, and that have had to remain in the shadows of men throughout the historical development of the discipline. In the introduction there are glimpses of how throughout the text— by experimenting with differents forms of writing— it seeks to demonstrate the ability of women to generate anthropological writing, freeing them from the constant scrutiny of their male colleagues and mentors, who have considered them the “soft” side of the discipline, unable to perform a feminist and at the same time innovative work
An interpretation in Spanish of the introduction of the book Women Writing Culture is presented. In this introductory chapter titled “Out of exile” in its original version, Ruth Behar, its author, contextualizes through stories and experiences the constant struggle of the woman anthropologists to be recognized in the academic field, in which they have been invisibilized by their male fellows. In this context “Women Writing Culture” is born as a response to the non-existent participation of women anthropologists in the “Writing Culture” project (written by male anthropologists). Women Writing Culture incorporates the point of view of those that have been marginalized, and that have had to remain in the shadows of men throughout the historical development of the discipline. In the introduction there are glimpses of how throughout the text— by experimenting with differents forms of writing— it seeks to demonstrate the ability of women to generate anthropological writing, freeing them from the constant scrutiny of their male colleagues and mentors, who have considered them the “soft” side of the discipline, unable to perform a feminist and at the same time innovative work