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10 maj 2023 · In her feminist classic The Second Sex (1949), Simone de Beauvoir refers to ‘the myth of Woman’ to denote images of womanhood that rest upon and reinforce beliefs in a static, feminine essence. This article aims to understand what makes this myth mythical.
The social anthropology of women is not a new topic. Women have been in there somewhere from the beginning of the discipline. According to Evans-Pritchard (1955) the relationship between the sexes was a favourite subject of Victorian British social anthropologists. Rogers (1978, op.cit. below, pp.125-6)
20 lut 2020 · Images are conceptualised through the lens of sociocultural psychology and analytically approached through the metaphor of ‘the social life of images,’ by which the life cycle of images is followed as they respond and borrow from one another in a continuous dialogue.
We can characterize the anthropology of women as falling into four categories so far: the study of women in relation to men and gender roles (“women and men”); large-scale cross-cultural theorizing about the position of women globally (“woman, culture, and society”); the study of women’s activities as valuable in and of themselves ...
The reemergence of anthropological research on women is associated with contem- porary feminist issues, a growing interdisciplinary literature in women's studies, and the development of women's studies programs in colleges and universities.
We are particularly committed to highlighting the unique strengths of feminist anthropology and seek submissions that champion and innovate many epistemological and methodological approaches that speak to issues of gender equity, inclusion, and radical possibility.
21 sty 2022 · It argues that despite men's increasing investments in beauty, beauty continues to be tied to “women” in existential ways. Moreover, while beauty still means work for women, this work is often outsourced to female migrant or racialized workers. Beauty norms and body images materialize in intimate encounters and particular settings.
