Karen brodkin biography

Karen Brodkin, anthropologist, is part of a historic transformation of anthropological practice.

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She, along with a cohort of other female anthropologists, brought the insights of the women’s movement into the classrooms and lecture halls of the university. Building from political study circles and action groups she was among a generation who understood that commitment was more than a word, it was an act.

My first encounter with Karen Brodkin was through chapter, “Engels Revisited” published in the celebrated book, Women Culture and Society, about fifteen years after it was written.

By the time I was reading Brodkin’s work as an undergrad the terrain of anthropological research had already been transformed. However, the intense political struggles that Brodkin and her colleagues had been engaged in had been sidelined in the mainstream discipline by an easier textual struggle in which how one wrote was considered as (if not more) important tha Karen BRODKIN | University of California, Los Angeles, CA ...

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