Der Ruth-Benedict-Preis ist eine Auszeichnung, die jährlich von der American Anthropological Association vergeben wird, um die Exzellenz eines wissenschaftlichen Buches anzuerkennen, das aus einer anthropologischen Perspektive über ein LGBT-Thema geschrieben wurde. Der Preis wurde 1986 zu Ehren der Anthropologin Ruth Benedict (1887–1948) ins Leben gerufen und wird in den Kategorien Monografie und Sammelband vergeben.
Liste der Preisträger JahrAutorTitelKategorie1986Walter L. WilliamsThe Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian CultureMonografie1987Gilbert HerdtThe Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New GuineaMonografie1990Serena NandaNeither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of IndiaMonografie1990Kath WestonFamilies We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, KinshipMonografie1991Richard ParkerBodies, Pleasures, and Passions: Sexual Culture in Contemporary BrazilMonografie1992Ellen LewinLesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American CultureMonografie1993Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. DavisBoots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian CommunityBuch1993Roger LancasterLife is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in NicaraguaMonografie1994Esther NewtonCherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America’s First Gay and Lesbian TownMonografie1995Joseph CarrierDe Los Otros: Intimacy and Homosexuality Among Mexican MenMonografie1996Carter WilsonHidden in the Blood: A Personal Investigation of AIDS in the YucatanMonografie1996William L. LeapWord’s Out: Gay Men’s English Monografie1997Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine LangTwo-spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and SpiritualityEdition1997Kath WestonRender Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins Monografie1998Jennifer RobertsonTakarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan Monografie1999Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia WieringaFemale Desires: Same Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures Edition2000Barbara L. Voss and Robert A. SchmidtArchaeologies of Sexuality Edition2000Stephen O. MurrayHomosexualities Monografie2000Esther NewtonMargaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas Monografie2001Arlene SteinThe Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community’s Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil RightsMonografie2002Hector CarrilloThe Night is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDSMonografie2003Martin F. Manalansan IVGlobal Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora Monografie2004Ellen Lewin and William L. LeapOut in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology Edition2004Megan SinnottToms and Dees: Transgender Identity and Female Same-Sex Relationships in ThailandMonografie2005Tom BoellstorffThe Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia Monografie2006Tanya ErzenStraight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement Monografie2007Saskia Wieringa, Evelyn Blackwood, and Abha BhaiyaWomen’s Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing AsiaEdition2007Gloria WekkerThe Politics of Passion: Women’s Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese DiasporaMonografie2007David ValentineImagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a CategoryMonografie2008Barbara L. VossThe Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial San FranciscoMonografie2008Mark PadillaCaribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican RepublicMonografie2009Ellen Lewin and William L. LeapOut in Public: Reinventing Lesbian/Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing WorldEdition2009Mary L. GrayOut in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America Monografie2009Rudolf Pell GaudioAllah Made Us: Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic City Monografie2010David A. B. MurrayHomophobias: Lust and Loathing Across Time and Space Edition2010Ellen LewinGay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family and Citizenship in AmericaMonografie2010Deborah GouldMoving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS Monografie2011Peter Anthony JacksonQueer Bangkok: 21st Century Markets, Media, and Rights Edition2011Roger LancasterSex Panic and the Punitive State Monografie2011Evelyn BlackwoodFalling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia Monografie2012Gayle RubinDeviations: A Gayle Rubin ReaderEdition2012Margot WeissTechniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of SexualityMonografie2013Susan Stryker and Aren AizuraThe Transgender Studies Reader 2Edition2013Naisargi DaveQueer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics Monografie2014Lal Zimman, Jenny Davis, and Joshua RaclawQueer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and SexualityEdition2014Noelle M. StoutAfter Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviety Cuba Monografie2015Linda Rae Bennett, Sharyn Graham DaviesSex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia: Sexual Politics, Health, Diversity and RepresentationsEdition2015Lucinda RambergGiven to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of ReligionMonografie2016Uriel Quesada, Letitia Gomez, Salvador Vidal-OrtizQueer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism Edition2016David A. B. MurrayReal Queer? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee ApparatusMonografie2017Eric PlemonsThe Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans-MedicineMonografie2018George Paul MeiuEthno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money and Belonging in KenyaMonografie2019Amy BrainerQueer Kinship and Family Change in TaiwanMonografie2019B CammingaTransgender Refugees and the Imagined South AfricaMonografie2020Ana-Maurine LaraQueer Freedom: Black SovereigntyMonografie2020Sarah LunaLove in the Drug War: Selling Sex & Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US BorderMonografie2020Paul Boyce, E.J. Gonzalez-Polled, Silvia PosoccoQueering Knowledge: Analytics, Devices, and Investments after Marilyn StrathernEdition2021Vaibhav SariaHijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural IndiaMonografie2022Serena Owusua DankwaKnowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial GhanaMonografie2023Omar KasmaniQueer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in PakistanMonografie2024Asli ZenginViolent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban WorldMonografie2025Tamar R. ShirinianSurvival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in ArmeniaMonografie
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