Feminist Anthropology in the 1980s

Question 1

Native women are better off

Answer 1

They enjoy less responsibility requiring a large amount of effort and higher status than that of western women, although this may not be easily visible. In some instances they enjoy more freedoms that are unavailable to us.

Question 2

No grand theorising

Answer 2

Getting as close to minds and feelings of people. Cross-cultural comparison’s of women’s status are impossible.

Question 3

Political economy

Answer 3

Seeing women’s lives in historical and political economic context. Describe women’s varying household and extra-household roles in a global economy, as a consequence they explore the limits of solidarity among within a articular context.

Question 4

Single key explination

Answer 4

Sherry Ortner, everywhere women are thought to be natural while men are linked to creativity and civilisation.
Nancy Chadrow- Female childbearing has led to male resentment of female authority.