Introduction: out of exile / Ruth Behar
Participant observation / Kirin Narayan
Bad girls: theater, women of color, and the politics of representation / Dorinne Kondo
Writing in my father's name: a diary of Translated Woman's first year / Ruth Behar
Feminist anthropology: the legacy of Elsie Clews Parsons / Louise Lamphere
"Not in the absolute singular": rereading Ruth Benedict / Barbara A. Babcock
Ella Cara Deloria and Mourning Dove: writing for cultures, writing against the grain / Janet L. Finn
Multiple subjectivities and strategic positionality: Zora Neale Hurston's experimental ethnographies / Graciela Hernández
Ruth Landes and the early ethnography of race and gender / Sally Cole
Margaret Mead and the "Rustling-of-the-wind-in-the-palm-trees school" of ethnographic writing / Nancy C. Lutkehaus
The ethnographic films of Barbara G. Myerhoff: anthropology, feminism, and the politics of Jewish identity / Gelya Frank
Writing against the grain: cultural politics of difference in the work of Alice Walker / Faye V. Harrison
The gender of theory / Catherine Lutz
Works and wives: on the sexual division of textual labor / Barbara Tedlock
Ms. representations: reflections on studying academic men / Judith Newton and Judith Stacey
"Man's darkest hours": maleness, travel, and anthropology / Laurent Dubois
Writing lesbian ethnography / Ellen Lewin
A tale of two pregnancies / Lila Abu-Lughod
Women out of China: traveling tales and traveling theories in postcolonial feminism / Aihwa Ong
Border work: feminist ethnography and the dissemination of literacy / Deborah A. Gordon
In dialogue? reading across minority discourses / Paulla Ebron and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Border poets: translating by dialogues / Smadar Lavie.