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Andro Centric Anthropological Perspectives
5,540 wordsIn this essay I will look at whether the inequality between men and women is a human universal, or whether there are or have been societies in which women shared power equally with men, or even exercised power over them. In order to do so, I will look at the writings of a number of anthropologists. In The Subordinance of Women: A Problematic Universal, author Ruth Bleier indicates that a central premise in the biological explanations inequality between women and men in present-day cultures, is t...
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