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SUMMARY:Juliet Mitchell Lecture: Revisiting the Awkward Relationship of Fe
 minism and Anthropology - Professor Lila Abu-Lughod\, Department of Anthro
 pology\, Columbia University
DTSTART:20251015T163000Z
DTEND:20251015T180000Z
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CONTACT:Connie Tang
DESCRIPTION:Almost forty years ago the anthropologist Marilyn Strathern pu
 blished an article in Signs titled “An Awkward Relationship: The Case of
  Feminism and Anthropology.” She argued that feminist perspectives could
  not bring about a paradigm shift in anthropology. In the intervening year
 s\, even if the contributions of feminist anthropology\, according to Lili
 th Mahmud\, have become “mainstream tenets of ethnographic methods and w
 riting” the awkward relationship persists. I will reflect on the ambival
 ence I have experienced in crossing these fields\, beginning with the form
 ative fieldwork I did in Egypt that resulted in Veiled Sentiments and endi
 ng with the tensions that drove my recent books\, Do Muslim Women Need Sav
 ing? and The Cunning of Gender Violence. If\, as Elizabeth Povinelli has a
 rgued\, fieldwork leads to an existential “coming to terms” with what 
 it means to be part of incommensurate worlds\, I show precisely how anthro
 pology’s imperatives and core ethics have for me made the awkwardness st
 ubborn.
LOCATION:McCrum Lecture Theatre\,  Benet St.\, Corpus Christi College
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