''Nature, Culture and Gender'' is a book length
social science
Social science (often rendered in the plural as the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among members within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the ...
essay collection that analyzes views that describe "nature" as inferior to "
culture
Culture ( ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and Social norm, norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, Social norm, customs, capabilities, Attitude (psychology), attitudes ...
". Hence, the authors draw on anthropology and history to critique ideologies that, by equating women with nature, renders the
female gender
Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender. Although gender often corresponds to sex, a transgender person may identify with a gender other than th ...
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
Cambridge University Press was the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted a letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it was the oldest university press in the world. Cambridge University Press merged with Cambridge Assessme ...
are
Carol MacCormack 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) 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 contributed important neo-Marxian w ...
, 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''
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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 heel ...
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Anthropology books
Sociology books
Gender studies literature
1980 books
Ethnographic literature
Cultural anthropology