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Andro Centric Anthropological Perspectives
2,784 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...
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Andro Centric Anthropological Perspectives
2,768 words... Marjorie Wolf; and "Male Dominance: Men or Reality?" , by Duley and Edwards. 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 that the subordinate position of women is a universal - across all time and all cultures. She tells us that these assumptions and conclusions have always invited the biological explanations that woman is subordinate be...
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Using Language Reform To Change Gender Attitudes
1,151 wordsIf language mirrors the world, the generic use of masculine pronouns and other male-biased use of language in English would reflect a traditionally male-orientated view of the world, in which case it is interpreted as reinforcing the low status of women in the society (Crystal 368: 1997). To please prescriptivist's and feminists, Cheshire and Prentice endeavoured to argue that language reforms could change peoples attitude towards sexual, and social equality. This is based upon an axiom that if ...
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Andro Centric Female Sexuality
1,048 wordsFeminism and the Standpoint of Lesbianism In chapter ten of her text Whose Science Whose Knowledge, Sandra Harding introduces the standpoint of a distinct lesbian epistemology. Her objective is to acknowledge a perspective that will recognize the viewpoint of all women and not just heterosexual women that are seen by the andro centric stipulations as essential or typical. Harding's valuable argument begins with the conceptualization of what is a lesbian (Harding, 250): if that is definable in an...
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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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Maxine Hong Kingston Fa Mu Lan
9,191 wordsMaxine Hong Kingston (27 October 1940 -) Pin-chia Feng National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan See also the Kingston entry in DLB Yearbook: 1980. BOOKS: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (New York: Knopf, 1976; London: John Lane, 1977); China Men (New York: Knopf, 1980); Hawaii One Summer: 1978 (San Francisco: Meadow Press, 1987); Through the Black Curtain (Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, 1987); Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (New York: K...
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