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Myths of male dominance :

1931859574

9781931859578

Myths of male dominance :

[Book]

collected articles on women cross-culturally /

Eleanor Burke Leacock.

Chicago, IL :

Haymarket Books,

2008.

viii, 344 pages ;

20 cm

Originally published: New York : Monthly Review Press, 1981.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-333) and index.

Introduction: Engels and the history of women's oppression -- The Montagnais-Naskapi -- Status among the Montagnais-Naskapi of Labrador -- Montagnais women and the Jesuit program for colonization -- Matrilocality among the Montagnais-Naskapi -- Introduction to Lewis Henry Morgan, Ancient Society, Parts I, II, III, IV -- Women's status in Egalitarian society: Implications for social evolution -- Revew of Evelyn Reed, Women's Evoluton -- Society and gender -- Review of Margaret Mead, Male and Female -- Structuralism and dialectics -- The changing family and Lévi-Strauss, or whatever happened to fathers? -- Ideologies of sex: Archetypes and stereotypes / Eleanor Leacock and June Nash -- Review of Steven Goldberg, The inevitability of Patriarchy / Eleanor Leacock and Steven Goldberg -- Social behavior, biology, and the double standard -- Political ramifications of Engels' argument on women's subjugation -- Women, development, and anthropological facts and fiction.

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A collection of anthropological articles designed to debunk myths that support the notion of male superiority as a natural phenomenon, with historical examples of egalitarian gender relations, incorporating the author's ethnographic research among the Naskapi, an indigenous hunting and gathering society in Canada.

Myths of male dominance.

Feminist anthropology.

Sex role.

Women-- Social conditions.

Women, Cross-cultural studies.

Sex role.

Women-- Social conditions.

Women, Cross-cultural studies.

Feminist anthropology.

Sex role.

Women-- Social conditions.

Women.

Leacock, Eleanor Burke,1922-1987.

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