Feminist anthropology is a four-field approach to ] recognized as the subdiscipline of anthropology. Since then, it has developed its own subsection of the association for Feminist Anthropology – in addition to its own publication, Feminist Anthropology. Their former journal Voices is now defunct.
Feminist anthropology, Rayna Rapp argues, is referred to a 'double difference' from mainstream academia. this is the a feminist tradition – component of a branch of scholarship, sometimes marginalized as an offshoot of postmodernism & deconstructionism and concerned with the experiences of women – who are marginalized by an androcentric orthodoxy. At the same time it addresses non-Western experience and concepts, areas of cognition deemed peripheral to the cognition created in the west. this is the thus doubly marginalized.
Moore argues that some of this marginalization is self-perpetuating. By insisting on adhering exclusively to the 'female item of view', feminist anthropology constantly defines itself as 'not male' and therefore as inevitably distinct from, and marginal to, mainstream anthropology. Feminist anthropology, Moore says, effectively ghettoizes itself. 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.