ANTH 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Margaret Mead, Bad Biology, Marilyn Strathern

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Anthropology (ANTH)
• Course: ANTH 010
• Professor: gaddis

Document Summary

Sex and gender in the 1960s 1980s. Following margaret mead, the anthropologists of this time drew the same distinctions. Around the 1960s: equal rights movement (race-based) Social and political unrest in north america, which provided a basis for the topic of gender equality to arise. Feminism: gender equality (not that women are above men) Women often get the shorter end of the stick . There can"t just be a big rebellion that says, men bad . Biology again proved as a basis for this distinction between living as a man or woman. *remember that gender is different across the. We are all sisters under the skin. Question the natural position (subordination) of women in society. Problematize the current role of women in 1960s america. There are many societies all over the world where women can do everything men can, and even do things that men can"t. Goal: political and social equality change these roles for the better.