''Nature, Culture and Gender'' is a book length
social science
Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soc ...
essay collection that analyzes views that describe "nature" as inferior to "
culture
Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Tyl ...
". Hence, the authors draw on anthropology and history to critique ideologies that, by equating women with nature, renders the
female gender as inferior, while the male, equated to culture is seen as superior. The
co-editors of this book published in 1980 by
Cambridge University Press
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are
Carol MacCormack
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and
Marilyn Strathern
Dame Ann Marilyn Strathern, Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, DBE, Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (née Evans; born 6 March 1941) is a Great Britain, British anthropology, anthropologist, who has worked lar ...
. The contributing authors are Carol P. MacCormack,
Maurice Bloch
Maurice Émile Félix Bloch (born 21 October 1939 in Caen, Calvados, France) is a British anthropologist. He is famous for his fieldwork on the shift of agriculturalists in Madagascar, Japan and other parts of the world, and has also contribut ...
, Jean H. Bloch, L. J. Jordanova, Olivia Harris,
Jane C. Goodale, Gillian Gillison, Marilyn Strathern.
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See also
* ''
Culture and Society, 1780-1950''
* ''
Women, Culture, and Society
'' Woman, Culture, and Society'', first published in 1974 (Stanford University Press), is a book consisting of 16 papers contributed by female authors and an introduction by the editors Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere. On the heels ...
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Anthropology books
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1980 books
Ethnographic literature
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