The Subject of Anthropology: Gender, Symbolism and PsychoanalysisISBN: 978-0-7456-0808-2
Hardcover
288 pages
March 2007, Polity
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LSE Review of Books
"A very well written book on an important topic by one of the most gifted anthropologists of her generation ... that is bound to become a classic text in the emergent cross-road between psychoanalysis, anthropology and feminist studies."
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
"Provides a stimulating challenge to social theorists of
subjectivity to apply its arguments to other sets of ethnographic
data, and to take up and extend the debate that Moore initiates in
this innovative book."
British Journal of Sociology
"This book is invaluable – there is nothing else like it.
Well-organized and beautifully written, it is also clear as a bell,
which is no mean feat when dealing with these complex and abstruse
issues."
Emily Martin, New York University
"This is a major intellectual achievement by one of the pioneers
of feminist anthropology. Henrietta Moore sets a new agenda for
transnational gender and sexuality research while debating some of
the cutting-edge theoretical issues in feminist psychoanalysis and
post-structuralism. She urges us to acknowledge the complex and
dynamic relationship between bodies and the variant cultural
meanings attached to femininity and masculinity, but also to
consider the enduring hold of the social imaginary upon the
constitution of the subject. A major contribution to the political
economy of sexuality in the global era."
Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University
"Henrietta Moore seeks to build a theory of gendered
subjectivity by articulating the insights of psychoanalysis,
anthropology and feminism. The extended readings of psychoanalytic
theory through anthropological and feminist eyes are clear and
illuminating. This is a rich and thought-provoking book."
Sherry B. Ortner, University of California-Los
Angeles