Woman, Culture, and Society
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Woman, Culture, and Society, first published in 1974 (
Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere. On the heels of the 1960s feminist movement, this book challenged anthropology's status quo of viewing studied cultures from a male perspective while diminishing female perspectives, even considering women as comparatively imperceptible. It is considered to be a pioneering work.[1][2][3][4][5]
The book features a number of widely cited essays including:
- In "Family Structure and Feminine Personality," Nancy Chodorow offers a psychoanalytic explanations for gender differences in personality, based on mother's primary role in raising small children and socializing girls into their gendered roles.
- In "Is female to male as nature is to culture?," first published in Feminist Studies,[6] Sherry Ortner argues that the universal (or near universal) subordination of women across cultures is explained in part by a common conception of women as "closer to nature than men" (73). The title describes a structuralist analogy between deep cultural structures, in the sense theorized by Claude Lévi-Strauss.[7] It described cultural oppositions including culture/nature, man/woman, mind/body, public/private, civilized/primitive, and active/passive.[8] In 1996, Ortner remembered it as "my first piece of feminist writing and my second professional publication."[7]
The title of the book alludes to the gendered nature of a prior anthropological text, Man, Culture, and Society.
See also
References
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Heider, Karl G. (2007). Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology through Film (4th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education. p. 372. ISBN 978-0-205-48355-6.
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Schrijvers, J. (Fall 1975). "Woman, Culture, and Society by Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo; Louise Lamphere". Urban Anthropology. 4 (3). The Institute, Inc.: 285–289. JSTOR 40552692.
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Gonzalez, Nancie L. (Oct 4, 1974). "Sex Roles and Cultural Domains". JSTOR 1738552.
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Chiñas, Beverly (Mar 1975). "Woman, Culture, and Society. Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo; Louise Lamphere". JSTOR 674082. Alternate title on Wiley-Blackwell website (click DOI): General, Applied and Theoretical: Woman, Culture, and Society. Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere, eds
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Martin, M. Kay (March 1976). "Woman, Culture, and Society by Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo; Louise Lamphere". Contemporary Sociology. 5 (2). American Sociological Association: 133–134. JSTOR 2062931.
- JSTOR 3177638.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8070-4633-3.
- ISBN 978-0-8122-2005-6.