Ruth Behar, Jewish Cuban American

anthropologist, writer, and noted feminist, reflects on the recent literature being

produced by diasporic women ethnographers, journalists, and writers, addressing their

contradictory and often pained relationships to their home countries. Focusing on the

work of Latin American and Caribbean women, she includes an account of her

own return to Cuba and her complicated search for home. This Rennert Forum on Women lecture

took place on April 10, 2008 at Barnard College.