• DOI:10.1086/494321
• Corpus ID: 144082648

An Awkward Relationship: The Case of Feminism and Anthropology

@article{Strathern1987AnAR,
  title={An Awkward Relationship: The Case of Feminism and Anthropology},
  author={Marilyn Strathern},
  journal={Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society},
  year={1987},
  volume={12},
  pages={276 - 292}
}

• M. Strathern
• Published 1 January 1987
• Art
• Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

Feminist scholarship offers the promise of a common ground between disciplines. Yet this very promise also raises questions about the impact of feminist theory on mainstream disciplinary development. Indeed, the one idea-the desirability of establishing autonomous women's studies centers-invariably recalls the other-the desirability of revolutionizing mainstream establishments-a pair of propositions which encapsulates the ideational divide between autonomy and integration that gives feminist theories their political edge. The fact that feminist scholarship works across disciplines means it cannot be parallel with them, and this is awkward in relation to the idea that feminist insights might modify work in any single