The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology is a comprehensive inter- and intradisciplinary survey of the field of feminist anthropology. It has at its core a focus on raising consciousness and communicating information about gender inequities, suffering, and precarity, as well as furthering a praxis informed by intersectionality, decolonial intent, and compassion.

Divided into three clear parts and comprising 34 chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook addresses topics in the following key areas:

• resisting violence
• communicating creatively
• labor
• migration and displacement
• health and disease
• reproduction
• intersectionality
• decolonial work.

The collection assesses the field at an interesting moment in time--one defined by social justice and populist movements gone global; once and future pandemics; extreme environmental disasters; and neoliberalism interrupted. How do gender, sex, and sexuality intersect with these phenomena? In answer, contributors to this volume put a heterogeneous anthropological approach in place; they advance interdisciplinary conversations, as well as renew a commitment to intradisciplinary dialogue.

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology is essential reading for students, researchers, and instructors in anthropology, and will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as gender studies, queer studies, economics, biomedicine, political science, sociology, geography, and science and technology studies.

Pamela L. Geller is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Miami, USA. She is the author of The Bioarchaeology of Social-Sexual Lives: Queering Common Sense about Sex, Gender, and Sexuality (2017), Theorizing Bioarchaeology (2021), and Becoming Object: The Sociopolitics of the Samuel G. Morton Cranial Collection (2024). Geller also writes for lay audiences; her essays have appeared in Slate, Miami Herald, and The New York Times.