Women culture and society michelle rosaldo anthropologist
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Woman, Culture, and Society
Sixteen women anthropologists analyze the place of women in human societies, treating as problematic certain questions and observations that in the past have been ignored or taken for granted, and consulting the anthropological record for data and theoretical perspectives that will help us to understand and change the quality of women's lives.
The first three essays address the question of human sexual asymmetry. Recognizing that men's and women's spheres are typically distinguished and that anthropologists have often slighted the powers and values associated with the woman's world, these essays examine the evidence for asymmetrical valuations of the sexes across a range of cultures and ask how these valuations can be explained. Explanations are sought not in biological "givens" of human nature, but in universal patterns of human, social, psychological, and cultural experience—patterns that, presumably, can be changed.
The remaining papers explore women's roles in a wide variety of social systems. By showing that women, like men, are social actors seeking power, security, prestige, and a sense of worth and value, these papers demonstrate the inadequacies of conventionally male-oriented accounts of social struct
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Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo & Louise Lamphere, eds., Woman, Culture, and Society. Stanford, Stanford University, 1974, xi + 318 p., bibl., index, fig., tabl.
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This book was the first general and theoretically oriented collection of essays to come out of the new Anthropology of Gender and thus in some ways marks the emergence of the field itself as a legitimate subdiscipline in anthropology. Many of the book's papers have been enormously influential, and the issues they raise have proven central in the study of sex roles and ideologies; it thus behooves us to summarize and discuss these fundamental questions as they are developed in the papers.1
The basic issue that permeates the collection are the twin questions: Are women
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universally subordinate? And, if so, what factors — psychological, socioeconomic, and/or symbolic — can account for this fact? However, the articles which explicitly formulate general, universalist models answer the first question in the affirmative, while many of the later ethnographic articles provide evidence that contradicts this position.
First, a summary of the position that women are universally subordinate, as differently analyzed in the first three articles. Rosaldo ("Woman, Culture and Society:
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