De bundel bevat autobiografieën, fictie, historische analyses, experimentele essays en kritieken over het beschrijven van cultuur. Feministische visies op ethnografie zijn de rode draad. De bundel bevat de volgende bijdragen: Participant observation / door Kritin Narayan: Bad girls : theater, women of color, and the politics of representation / door Dorinne Kondo: Writing in my father's name : a diary of Translated Woman' first year / door Ruth Behar: Feminist anthropology : the legacy of Elsie Clews Parsons / door Louise Lamphere: 'Not in the absolute singular' : rereading Ruth Benedict: Ella Cara Deloria and Mourning Dove : writing for cultures, writing against the grain / door Janet L. Finn: Multiple subjectivities and strategic positionality : Zora Neale Hurston's experimental ethnographies / door Graciela Hernández: Ruth Landes and the early ethnography of race and gender / door Sally Cole: Margaret Mead and the 'Rustling-of-the-wind-in-the-palm-trees school' of ethnographic writing / door Nancy C. Lutkehaus: The ethnographic films of Barbara G. Myerhoff : anthropology, feminism, and the poliitics of Jewish identity / door Gelya Frank: Writing against the grain : cultural politics of difference in the work of Alice Walker / door Faye V. Harrison: The gender o theory / door Catherine Lutz: Works and wives : on the seuxal division of textual labor / door Barbara Tedlock: Ms.representations : reflections on studying academic men / door Judith Newton and Judith Stacey: 'Man's darkest hours' : maleness, travel, and anthropology / door Laurent Dubois: Writing lesbian ethnography / door Ellen Lewin: A tale of two pregnancies / door Lila Abu-Lughod: Women out of China : traveling tales and traveling theories in postcolonial feminism / door Aihwa Ong: Border work : feminist ethnography and the dissemination of literacy / door Deborah A. Gordon: In dialogue? : reading across minority discourses / door Paulla Ebron en Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: Conclusion : culture writing women : inscribing feminist anthropology / door Deborah A. Gordon.