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The Ruth Benedict Prize is an award given annually by the American Anthropological Association's "to acknowledge excellence in a scholarly book written from an anthropological perspective about a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender topic". The award was established in 1986 in honor of anthropologist, Ruth Benedict (1887–1948) and is given in two separate categories: a monograph by a single author and an edited volume.[1][2]

List of winners

Year Author Title Category
1986 Walter L. Williams The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture Monograph
1987 Gilbert Herdt The Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New Guinea Monograph
1990 Serena Nanda Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India Monograph
1990 Kath Weston Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship Monograph
1991 Richard Parker Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions: Sexual Culture in Contemporary Brazil Monograph
1992 Ellen Lewin Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture Monograph
1993 Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community Book
1993 Roger Lancaster Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua Monograph
1994 Esther Newton Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America’s First Gay and Lesbian Town Monograph
1995 Joseph Carrier De Los Otros: Intimacy and Homosexuality Among Mexican Men Monograph
1996 Carter Wilson Hidden in the Blood: A Personal Investigation of AIDS in the Yucatan Monograph
1996 William L. Leap Word’s Out: Gay Men’s English Monograph
1997 Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine Lang Two-spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality Edited Volume
1997 Kath Weston Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins Monograph
1998 Jennifer Robertson Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan Monograph
1999 Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa Female Desires: Same Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures Edited Volume
2000 Barbara L. Voss and Robert A. Schmidt Archaeologies of Sexuality Edited Volume
2000 Stephen O. Murray Homosexualities Monograph
2000 Esther Newton Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas Monograph
2001 Arlene Stein The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community’s Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights Monograph
2002 Hector Carrillo The Night is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS Monograph
2003 Martin F. Manalansan IV Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora Monograph
2004 Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology Edited Volume
2004 Megan Sinnott Toms and Dees: Transgender Identity and Female Same-Sex Relationships in Thailand Monograph
2005 Tom Boellstorff The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia Monograph
2006 Tanya Erzen Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement Monograph
2007 Saskia Wieringa, Evelyn Blackwood, and Abha Bhaiya Women’s Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia Edited Volume
2007 Gloria Wekker The Politics of Passion: Women’s Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora Monograph
2007 David Valentine Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category Monograph
2008 Barbara L. Voss The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco Monograph
2008 Mark Padilla Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic Monograph
2009 Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap Out in Public: Reinventing Lesbian/Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World Edited Volume
2009 Mary L. Gray Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America Monograph
2009 Rudolf Pell Gaudio Allah Made Us: Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic City Monograph
2010 David A. B. Murray Homophobias: Lust and Loathing Across Time and Space Edited Volume
2010 Ellen Lewin Gay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America Monograph
2010 Deborah Gould Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS Monograph
2011 Peter A. Jackson Queer Bangkok: 21st Century Markets, Media, and Rights Edited Volume
2011 Roger Lancaster Sex Panic and the Punitive State Monograph
2011 Evelyn Blackwood Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia Monograph
2012 Gayle Rubin Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader Edited Volume
2012 Margot Weiss Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality Monograph
2013 Susan Stryker and Aren Aizura The Transgender Studies Reader 2 Edited Volume
2013 Naisargi Dave Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics Monograph
2014 Lal Zimman, Jenny Davis, and Joshua Raclaw Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality Edited Volume
2014 Noelle M. Stout After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviety Cuba Monograph
2015 Linda Rae Bennett, Sharyn Graham Davies Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia: Sexual Politics, Health, Diversity and Representations Edited Volume
2015 Lucinda Ramberg Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion Monograph
2016 Uriel Quesada, Letitia Gomez, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism Edited Volume
2016 David A. B. Murray Real Queer? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus Monograph
2017 Eric Plemons The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans- Medicine Monograph
2018 George Paul Meiu Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money and Belonging in Kenya Monograph

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Ruth Benedict Prize". The Association for Queer Anthropology. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  2. ^ "AAA Section Awards". American Anthropological Association. Retrieved 4 December 2018.