In the discipline's early days, anthropologists by definition were assumed to be white and male. Women and black scholars were relegated to the field's peripher

This book traces the personal and intellectual histories of six remarkable women anthropologists, using a rich cocktail of archival sources.

A welcome resource and reference biographical dictionary that took five years to produce and is aimed at both graduate and undergraduate students in anthropolog

What is it like to be an anthropologist or, more specifically, a woman anthropologist? Here we see highly trained and qualified women anthropologists examining

The women anthropologists in this book speak frankly about their challenges and successes as they navigated the tensions in their personal and professional live