THE SECOND SEX
Language: English
Published by Philadelphia, Univ. of PA Press, 1992,, 1992
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Philadelphia, Univ. of PA Press, 1992, 1992. Soft cover. third paperback printing. Pages viii + 350,octavo, trade paperback, third paperback printing. Spine is faded, one cover corner creased, sme highlighting in text, else clean and tight condition. Includes indexes. "A selection of edited papers presented at an international conference held at the Univ. of PA in April, 1984 and at a symposiym organized for the meetings of the American Anthropological Association in 1983." 090105A ISBN: 0-8122-1303-3.
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- Title
- THE SECOND SEX
- Author
- Sanday, Peggy Reeves, and Ruth Gallagher Goodenough, edited by
- Publisher
- Philadelphia, Univ. of PA Press, 1992,
- Publication year
- 1992
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0812213033
- ISBN 13
- 9780812213034
Beyond the Second Sex is an innovative work that challenges Simone de Beauvoir's notion that women are "the second" in every society. Anthropological inquiry into male-female relations has evolved around debates concerning sexual inequality. Based on original field research, the essays presented in this volume are not concerned with inequality per se. Rather, the authors pose ethnographic and analytical challenges in the assumptions and definitions that, in the past, have supported judgments about sexual equality and inequality. They move away from broad labels and blanket judgments in favor of addressing the conflict, contradictions, and ambiguities that are so often encountered in field research.
These essays maintain that, in discussing the cultural construction and representation of gender, the "culture" that is abstracted from field data cannot be separated from a complex, ongoing, and everchanging local process. From this point of view, the editors conclude, the relationship of the sexes to each other is best discussed in terms of the conflicts, tensions, and paradoxes that are at the heart of daily life in many societies.
Beyond the Second Sex will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology and women's studies.
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"It realizes with distinction the promise of its subtitle to provide 'new directions in the anthropology of gender.'"—Times Higher Education Supplement
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