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Seed: Gendered Vernaculars and Relational Possibilities 种子：流派白话与关系可能性

Feminist anthropology Pub Date : 2021-11-11 DOI: 10.1002/fea2.12070

Susannah Chapman, Xan Sarah Chacko

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Feminist pedagogy through the small fieldnote 从田野笔记看女权主义教育学

Feminist anthropology Pub Date : 2021-10-16 DOI: 10.1002/fea2.12068

Tarini Bedi, Aditi Aggarwal, Josephine Chaet, Lakshita Malik

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Bringing Home la Leche: Expanding Teachers’ Maternal Roles in Rural Oaxaca 把孩子带回家:扩大瓦哈卡农村教师的母亲角色

Feminist anthropology Pub Date : 2021-10-16 DOI: 10.1002/fea2.12063

Jayne Howell

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Grieving geographies, mourning waters: Life, death, and environmental gendered racialized struggles in Mexico 悲伤的地理，悲伤的水域:墨西哥的生命，死亡和环境性别种族化斗争

Feminist anthropology Pub Date : 2021-10-14 DOI: 10.1002/fea2.12060

Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera

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Rooting out the weeds that bind: Disemboweling the devil after 2020 根除束缚的杂草:在2020年之后开膛破肚

Feminist anthropology Pub Date : 2021-10-14 DOI: 10.1002/fea2.12069

Annie Wilkinson

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When discomfort enters our skin: Five feminists in conversation 当不适进入我们的皮肤:五位女权主义者的谈话

Feminist anthropology Pub Date : 2021-10-14 DOI: 10.1002/fea2.12059

Andrea García-González, Elona Marjory Hoover, Athanasia (Nancy) Francis, Kayla Rush, Ana María Forero Angel

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The case of Sparkle Rai: A violent patriarchal narrative of conspiratorial kinship and race 闪光Rai的案例：一个关于阴谋亲属关系和种族的暴力父权叙事

Feminist anthropology Pub Date : 2021-10-13 DOI: 10.1002/fea2.12064

James Doucet-Battle

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Peaceful birth quilt 平安分娩被

Feminist anthropology Pub Date : 2021-10-13 DOI: 10.1002/fea2.12062

Abigail Hughes-Strange

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My grandmother was a bad woman, mi abuela fue una mala mujer 我的祖母是个坏女人，我的祖母是个坏女人

Feminist anthropology Pub Date : 2021-10-13 DOI: 10.1002/fea2.12067

Gabriela Spears-Rico

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Beyond poto mitan: Challenging the “Strong Black Woman” archetype and allowing space for tenderness 超越poto mitan:挑战“坚强的黑人女性”原型，并为温柔留出空间

Feminist anthropology Pub Date : 2021-10-13 DOI: 10.1002/fea2.12065

Darlène Dubuisson, Mark Schuller

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