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Visitor‐I and dual worldmaking: Queer museology between Tuntenhaus and the Schwules Museum

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the visitor‐I as an embodied protocol for analyzing how queer archival exhibitions choreograph perception, affect, and learning, and it uses dual worldmaking as a bounded heuristic to name the relation between lived worldmaking in the Tuntenhaus squat and curatorial worldmaking in the museum, and I argue that the visitor ...
Melike Atmanoğlu
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The problem with abortion deserts: Reframing deserts for feminist solidarity

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the rise of the far right across the world, feminist scholars and activists have been drawn to the language of “abortion deserts” to describe the decimation of reproductive healthcare services. In this paper we argue that while “abortion deserts” is a rhetorically powerful category, it is too often used uncritically in ways that overlook ...
Chiara Chiavaroli, Cordelia Freeman
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Weaving strength and care: Situated reflections on women's work and the epistemology of care in biological anthropology

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay examines how gendered expectations, structural precarity, and institutional hierarchies shape research practices, knowledge production, and career trajectories in biological anthropology. Taking the figure of the “strong woman” as an entry point, it questions celebratory narratives of resilience that frame endurance as an individual
Lumila Paula Menéndez
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Who is a responsible woman? Understanding the scope and characteristics of responsible womanhood amongst women in Karachi

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we will construct and analyze intersecting definitions of womanhood among middle‐class women living in Karachi, Pakistan. Women are agents of their lives and are not passive voices. In this paper, we present narratives of women who resist “societal” narratives of womanhood to live a life of their choosing.
Urooba Ahmed Fatima, Kathryn B. H. Clancy, Alexandra Brewis, Neetu Choudhary, Mohammad Jobayer Hossain, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Sarah Trainer, Amber Wutich   +7 more
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“You just want to re‐open our biggest wounds, don't you?”: Homeplace ethnography as (polluted) environmental method

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract When I was 12, my family told me a story about their community falling apart and coming together, a time when someone tried putting a nuclear facility in their (our?) hometown. Since we moved when I was too young to remember, the story had little significance until I embarked on a “hometown” ethnographic journey for my dissertation.
Chandler L. Classen
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Encountering anthropologists through body‐mapping: On risk‐taking, experimentation and solidarity in the neoliberal university

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article turns a workshop session and the university as a locus of knowledge production into objects of ethnographic investigation. The authors reflect on our experience co‐facilitating a body‐mapping session with a group of anthropologists of different backgrounds, ages and career stages—all women—from universities across Europe, during a
Koreen M. Reece, Magdalena Suerbaum
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Quiet activism as feminist practice

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we discuss how women combat silencing in the face of violence and increased political turmoil through quiet activism in their day‐to‐day lives. Centering lengthy conversations with Arab women across London and notes from an ongoing collaboration with a feminist activist based in the US, we examine how wearable rhetorical ...
Vicky Panossian, Catherine A. Evans
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Support and destigmatization in early pregnancy loss in Spain

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Early miscarriages are a frequent reproductive event, often silenced and shrouded in stigma. Feminist anthropology has pointed out how such losses challenge the widespread Euro‐American social representations of motherhood and pregnancy, as well as societal unease with death.
Giulia Colavolpe‐Severi, Alexandra Desy, Carolina Remorini   +2 more
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A'mmomat and weshu processing as a mechanism of balancing gender power relations among the Kambaata community of Central Ethiopia

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that power in gender relations within the Kambaata people of central Ethiopia is expressed through relational, mutual, and complementary dynamics rather than domination or control. It critiques Western liberal feminist frameworks—especially those emphasizing rights, equality, and resistance—for their limitations in ...
Desta Lorenso
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Performing history, negotiating patriarchy: Actressing as gendered labor and the fragmentation of womanhood in Chinese historical costume drama

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Gender inequality remains widespread in the film and television production industry, yet it is seldom examined in relation to backstage working environments. This article integrates on‐screen and off‐screen perspectives to investigate the working lives of Chinese actresses.
Yajie Li, Yuhao Ding
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