What is feminist ethnography? What is its history? How can its methods be applied? How is feminist ethnography produced, distributed, and evaluated? How do feminist ethnographers link their findings to broader publics through activism, advocacy, and public policy? Investigating these questions and more, this cross-cultural and interdisciplinary new text employs a problem-based approach to guide readers through the methods, challenges, and possibilities of feminist ethnography. Dána-Ain Davis and Christa Craven tease out the influences of feminist ethnography across a variety of disciplines including women’s and gender studies, critical race studies, ethnic studies, education, communications, psychology, sociology, urban studies, and American studies. Feature elements of the text include Essentials (excerpts from key texts in the field), Spotlights (interviews with feminist ethnographers), and suggested assignments and readings. The text concludes with a “conversation” among contemporary feminist ethnographers about what feminist ethnography looks like today and into the future.This text is accompanied by an author-maintained website that can be found here:http://discover.wooster.edu/feministethnography/

Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities

Politics & Social Sciences

Davis, Dána-Ain

Craven The College of Wooster, Christa

Social Sciences

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

A timely “problem-based” approach to the history and application of feminist ethnography, this text features over 25 Essentials (excerpts from key texts) and 25 Spotlights (interviews with contemporary feminist ethnographers) and is guided by critical questions about feminist methods as well as debates and challenges in the field.

Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (African American Studies)

Examines the consequences of welfare reform for Black women fleeing domestic violence.

Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Suny Series in African American Studies)

SUNY Press

Examines the consequences of welfare reform for Black women fleeing domestic violence. This timely and compelling ethnography examines the impact of welfare reform on women seeking to escape domestic violence. Dana-Ain Davis profiles twenty-two women, thirteen of whom are Black, living in a battered women’s shelter in a small city in upstate New York. She explores the contradictions between welfare reform’s supposed success in moving women off of public assistance and toward economic self-sufficiency and the consequences welfare reform policy has presented for Black women fleeing domestic violence. Focusing on the intersection of poverty, violence, and race, she demonstrates the differential treatment that Black and White women face in their entanglements with the welfare bureaucracy by linking those entanglements to the larger political economy of a small city, neoliberal social policies, and racialized ideas about Black women as workers and mothers. “Black women have always been viewed … negatively, especially due to myths of being ‘lazy,’ ‘not wanting to work,’ or ‘having too many babies.’ The book’s major theme is that welfare reform is not working, and not institutionally supportive, especially for poor black women who are victims of domestic violence.” — CHOICE “For anyone who imagines that welfare policy promotes improved economic well-being and security, opportunity, self-sufficiency, and hope for poor women and their families, this book is a wake-up call.” — from the Foreword by Sandra Morgen “At once an ethnographic community study and a review of the national data, there are very few books that offer such a rich and contextualized analysis of the nexus between violence and poverty.” — Beth E. Richie, author of Compelled to Crime: The Gender Entrapment of Battered Black Women “There are not many social scientists or journalists who have embedded themselves so deeply in a particular setting like Angel House as Davis has, or who have been able to witness firsthand so many of the ‘rituals of degradation’ to which these women are routinely subjected. I found these parts of the book to be completely compelling and disturbing.” — Susan Brin Hyatt, Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis

State University of New York Press

Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice, 7)

Finalist, 2020 PROSE Award in the Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology category, given by the Association of American Publishers A troubling study of the role that medical racism plays in the lives of black women who have given birth to premature and low birth weight infants Black women have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America. This cannot be simply explained by economic factors, with poorer women lacking resources or access to care. Even professional, middle-class black women are at a much higher risk of premature birth than low-income white women in the United States. Dána-Ain Davis looks into this phenomenon, placing racial differences in birth outcomes into a historical context, revealing that ideas about reproduction and race today have been influenced by the legacy of ideas which developed during the era of slavery. While poor and low-income black women are often the “mascots” of premature birth outcomes, this book focuses on professional black women, who are just as likely to give birth prematurely. Drawing on an impressive array of interviews with nearly fifty mothers, fathers, neonatologists, nurses, midwives, and reproductive justice advocates, Dána-Ain Davis argues that events leading up to an infant’s arrival in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and the parents’ experiences while they are in the NICU, reveal subtle but pernicious forms of racism that confound the perceived class dynamics that are frequently understood to be a central factor of premature birth. The book argues not only that medical racism persists and must be considered when examining adverse outcomes―as well as upsetting experiences for parents―but also that NICUs and life-saving technologies should not be the only strategies for improving the outcomes for black pregnant women and their babies. Davis makes the case for other avenues, such as community-based birthing projects, doulas, and midwives, that support women during pregnancy and labor are just as important and effective in avoiding premature births and mortality.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Women's Health

NYU Press

Feminist Ethnography, Second Edition, is a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary text that employs a problem-based approach to guide readers through the methods, challenges, and possibilities of feminist ethnography. Dána-Ain Davis and Christa Craven tease out the influences of feminist ethnography across a variety of disciplines including women's and gender studies, critical race studies, ethnic studies, education, communications, psychology, sociology, urban studies, and American studies. Feature elements of the text include Essentials (excerpts from key texts in the field), Spotlights (interviews with feminist ethnographers), and suggested assignments and readings. The text concludes with a "conversation" among contemporary feminist ethnographers about what feminist ethnography looks like today and into the future.

Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities (Dutch Edition)

Craven, Christa

Anthropology

Feminist Ethnography, Second Edition, is an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural introduction to the methods, challenges, and possibilities of feminist ethnography. Dána-Ain Davis and Christa Craven use a problem-based approach—focused on inquiry and investigation—to present a feminist framework for thinking critically about how we document everyday experiences. 
The book begins with an introduction to feminist perspectives, their meanings over time, and a brief history of feminist ethnography. Then the authors examine feminist methodologies, answering the question, how does one do feminist ethnography, and investigates common challenges such as ethical dilemmas and logistical constraints faced during fieldwork. Finally, Davis and Craven discuss what it means to be a feminist activist ethnographer, including advocacy efforts and engagement with public policy, and ask students to consider: what is your vision for the future of feminist ethnography? 
New to this Edition: Six new interviews with feminist ethnographers include reflections on the intersections of trans studies, disability studies, and the Cite Black Women movement New section on safety, accessibility, and fieldwork to address the risks all ethnographers face, but in particular those who challenge long-held assumptions that ethnographers are (all) white, Western, able-bodied, well-funded, cisgender, and usually male Enhanced discussion of virtual ethnography in the wake of COVID-19 Added content on transgender/nonbinary experiences and disability studies

Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities, Second Edition

Beyond Reproduction examines the women's health movement of the 1990s and how activists achieved unprecedented policy changes in the areas of medical research, HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, and violence against women. It analyzes the composition, approach, strategies, and context of the women's health movement, specifying the many factors that led to these significant federal level policy changes. Beyond Reproduction enhances our understanding of women's movements, women's health movements, and other social movements and how, when, and why activists are able to produce substantial political change.

Beyond Reproduction: Women's Health, Activism, and Public Policy

Baird, Karen L.

Christensen, Kimberly

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

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Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities

Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities

Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Suny Series in African American Studies)

Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (African American Studies)

Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice, 7)

Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities (Dutch Edition)

Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities, Second Edition

Beyond Reproduction: Women's Health, Activism, and Public Policy