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4. NATURE, CULTURE, GENDER, AGE: A CRITICAL REVIEW. INTRODUCTION. Gender forms one of the most important variables in human aging because it is one of the most important aspects of human experience. This is a review essay on gender and age, but it will depart from the usual topical treatment by discussing
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Nature, Culture and Gender is a book length social science essay collection that analyzes views that describe "nature" as inferior to "culture". Hence, by equating women with nature, the female gender is then viewed as inferior, while the male is equated to culture. The co-editors of this book published in 1980 by Cambridge
is to culture as female is to male, one of us (Maccormack) mentioned that on the basis of her field work, the gender part of the equation did not seem universally valid. The other (Strathern) made the more radical suggestion that on the basis of her field work, she could not subscribe to the putative universality of the nature-
Marilyn Strathern Nature, Culture and Gender. Info. PDF document icon NCG (pub).pdf — PDF document, 177 KB (181833 bytes). The Reproductive Sociology Research Group supports research and teaching on the social and cultural implications of new reproductive technologies. ReproSoc is based within the Department
Edited by. CAROL P. MacCORMACK. Ross Institute. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. University of London and. MARILYN STRATHERN. Girton College, Cambridge. H CAMBRIDGE. UNIVERSITY PRESS. Page 2. Contents. List of plates. Preface page vi vii. 1 Nature, culture and gender: a critique. 1.
They examine the assumptions behind them analytically and historically, and present ethnographic evidence to show that the dichotomy between nature and culture, and its association with a contrast between the sexes, is a particularity of western thought. The book is a commentary on the way anthropologists working
68 SHERRY B. ORTNER we cannot rout out simply by rearranging a few tasks and roles in the social system, or even by reordering the whole economic structure. In this paper I try to expose the underlying logic of cultural thinking that assumes the inferiority of women; I try to show the highly persuasive nature of the logic, for

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