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" Myths of male dominance : "
Eleanor Burke Leacock.
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857890
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Leacock, Eleanor Burke,1922-1987.
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Myths of male dominance : : collected articles on women cross-culturally /\ Eleanor Burke Leacock.
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Chicago, IL :: Haymarket Books,, 2008.
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viii, 344 pages ;; 20 cm
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1931859574
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: 9781931859578
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| Notes
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Originally published: New York : Monthly Review Press, 1981.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-333) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Feminist anthropology.
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Sex role.
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Women, Cross-cultural studies.
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Women-- Social conditions.
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Sex role.
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Women, Cross-cultural studies.
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Women-- Social conditions.
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Feminist anthropology.
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Sex role.
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Women-- Social conditions.
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Women.
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305.4
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GN479.7.L4 2008
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