Contesting Publics

Lynne Phillips is Dean of Arts and Professor of Anthropology at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is co-author of Contesting Publics: Feminism, Activism, Ethnography (Pluto, 2014) and The Third Wave of Modernization in Latin America: Cultural Perspectives on Neoliberalism (1998).Sally Cole is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal. She is co-author of Contesting Publics: Feminism, Activism, Ethnography (Pluto, 2014) and author of Ruth Landes: A Life in Anthropology (2003).

• IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPreface: Contesting Publics1. Towards an Ethnography of Publics - Sally Cole and Lynne Phillips2. Auto-Constructed Feminist Publics: Household Matters in Northeast Brazil - Sally ColeActivist Testimony: Mariza3. Saving Women? Awkward Alliances in the Public Spaces of Sex Tourism - Marie-Eve Carrier-MoisanActivist Testimony: Susana and Luísa4. Feminism and 'Post-Neoliberal' Publics: Working the Spaces of Ecuador’s Constitutional Reform - Lynne PhillipsActivist Testimony: Cecilia5. Gossip as Direct Action - Erica Lagalisse 6. A Pedagogical Conversation: Public Scholars and Public Scholarship - Sally Cole, Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan, Erica Lagalisse and Lynne PhillipsNotesReferencesIndex

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