The book is considered an important work in the discipline of feminist anthropology.

The relationships of feminist anthropology with other strands of academic feminism are uneasy.

Feminist anthropology is inclusive of birth anthropology as a specialization.

Her focus is on the history of religions, feminist anthropology and Middle Eastern Jewry.

Feminist anthropology, Moore says, effectively ghettoizes itself.

By concerning themselves with the different ways in which different cultures constitute gender, feminist anthropology can contend that the oppression of women is not universal.

Feminist anthropology, Rayna Rapp argues, is subject to a 'double difference' from mainstream academia.

This is an outstanding book of cultural criticism, which brings together feminist anthropology, oral and archival history, political and legal narrative."

Contemporary feminist anthropology, Marilyn Strathern writes, disagrees internally about whether sexual asymmetry is universal.

All of which involved her work with the people of Papua New Guinea and her expertize in feminist anthropology.

O'Brien's project extended familiar themes in feminist anthropology of the 1960s and 1970s and extends into radical sociology and anthropology of the 1980s.

By insisting on the 'female point of view', feminist anthropology constantly defines itself as 'not male' and therefore as inevitably distinct from and marginal to the mainstream.

Besides throwing out challenges to stimulate feminist anthropology, Ms. Ortner is also credited with expanding "practice theory," an approach that synthesized competing views in anthropology and sociology.

Also important to the later spread of Feminist anthropology within other subfields beyond cultural anthropology was physical anthropologist Caroline Bond Day and archeologist Mary Leakey.

Feminist anthropology has unfolded through three historical phases beginning in the 1970's: the anthropology of women, the anthropology of gender, and finally, feminist anthropology.

Her celebrated book, Anthropological Explorations in Gender: Intersecting Fields, published in 2001 by Sage, is an important contribution in feminist anthropology in India.

Feminist Anthropology is a four field approach to anthropology (archeological, biological, cultural, linguistic) that seeks to reduce male bias in research findings, anthropological hiring practices, and the scholarly production of knowledge.

Strathern argues that anthropology, which must deal with difference rather than seeking to erase it, is not necessarily harmed by this disagreement, but notes nonetheless that feminist anthropology faces resistance.

Strathern argues that feminist anthropology, as a tradition posing a challenge to the mainstream, can never fully integrate with that mainstream: it exists to critique, to deconstruct, and to challenge.

Today, feminist anthropology has grown out of the anthropology of gender to encompass the study of the female body as it intersects with or is acted upon by cultural, medical, economic, and other forces.

She has won the Sylvia Forman Prize for her work in feminist anthropology, and has worked with the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights studies in the Gambia.

This includes the expansion of feminist politics beyond cultural anthropology to physical anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and archeology, as well as feminist anthropology becoming a site for connecting cultural studies, history, literature, and ethnic studies.

Reddy is the Association for Feminist Anthropology Program Chair for 2007, and a member of the steering committee for the University Consortium for Sexuality Research and Training at the Kinsey Institute.

She has published extensively throughout her career on subjects as diverse as the Navajo and their medicinal practices and de-industrialisation and urban anthropology; nonetheless she is possibly best known for her work on feminist anthropology and gender issues.

While feminists practiced cultural anthropology since its inception as an American discipline (see Margaret Mead and Hortense Powdermaker), it was not until the 1970's that feminist anthropology was formally recognized as a subdiscipline of anthropology.