Reclaiming Experience, Stories, and Intimacy as Feminist Modes of Knowledge: Learning from Rayna Rapp
Mary Anglin
There’s a story Rayna Rapp recounts from her graduate school days at the University of Michigan of encountering Gayle Rubin as an anthropology major enrolled in her recitation section. In Rayna’s telling, her response to the undergraduate fascinated by kinship and the work of Claude Lêvi-Strauss was initially one of dismissal: “Don’t bother me. I’m busy making the revolution, who cares about kinship!” ( ). But the story turns on a later point when, upon reading that student’s class paper one evening, Rayna “got on my bicycle and went over to Gayle to apologize and said, ‘You’re right, you do have to talk to me about anthropology. You’ve just turned the goddamn field upside down’” ( ). Rayna likes to emphasize the brilliant theoretical contributions of this budding scholar. I like to think about Rayna as someone who “understood what I was holding in my hand” and rode her bike, right then in the night, to talk to the young student whose work so amazed her ( ).
Rayna Rapp
This narrative circulated again in December during a “Zoom” event organized by curren
Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship
Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg II n trying to portray my son in the literary model known as a novel, I have passed through . . . stages. In the case of a person like him with a mental disability, it isn’t the individual himself but rather his family that has to pass from the “shock phase” to the “acceptance phase.” In a sense, my work on this theme has mirrored that process. I have had to learn through concrete experience to answer such questions as how a handicapped person and his family can survive the shock, denial, and confusion phases and learn to live with each of those particular kinds of pain. I then had to find out how we could move beyond this to a more positive adjustment, before finally reaching our own “acceptance phase”— in effect coming to accept ourselves as handicapped, as the family of a handicapped person. And it was only then that I felt the development of my work itself was at last complete. (Oe 46, emphasis added) In , when the Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe’s son Hikari was born with a dangerous brain tumor, Oe and his wife chose t
Rayna Rapp
Anthropology, New York University
Rayna Rapp (former Rayna R. Reiter) is a professor and associate chair of anthropology at New York University, specializing in gender and health; the politics of reproduction; science, technology, and genetics; and disability in the United States and Europe. She has contributed over 80 published works to the field of anthropology, independently, as a co-author, editor, and forward-writing, including Robbie Davis-Floyd and Carolyn Sargent's Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge. Her book, Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America, received multiple awards upon release and has been praised for providing "invaluable insights into the first generation of women who had to decide whether or not to terminate their pregnancies on the basis of amniocentesis result". She co-authored many articles with Faye Ginsburg, including Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship, a topic the pair has continued to research.
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Science and Social Difference
Rayna Rapp
(VIDEO) Feminist Anthropology: A Live Annual Review at AAA
by Bianca C Williams and Rayna Rapp
The discussion with Rayna Rapp, Inderpal Grewal, Carla Freeman, Lucinda E.G. Ramberg, and Bianca more The discussion with Rayna Rapp, Inderpal Grewal, Carla Freeman, Lucinda E.G. Ramberg, and Bianca Williams offers a "live" review of the State of the Field of feminist anthropology, answering questions such as: "What do you see as the primary contributions of feminist anthropology to feminist thought more generally, and to anthropology more generally? Feminist anthropology has long grappled with a series of intellectual tensions between theory and ethnography, nature and culture, sex and gender, race and class. Our field's approach to these questions has sometimes been at the forefront of those discussions in the discipline more generally, and sometimes has lagged. What have been feminist anthropology's strengths and weaknesses in these conversations?" (Organized by Joanna Davidson and Carla Jones, for the Association of Feminist Anthropology)
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