Beyond the Second Sex is an innovative work that challenges Simone
de Beauvoir's notion that women are "the second" in every society.
Anthropological inquiry into male-female relations has evolved
around debates concerning sexual inequality. Based on original
field research, the essays presented in this volume are not
concerned with inequality per se. Rather, the authors pose
ethnographic and analytical challenges in the assumptions and
definitions that, in the past, have supported judgments about
sexual equality and inequality. They move away from broad labels
and blanket judgments in favor of addressing the conflict,
contradictions, and ambiguities that are so often encountered in
field research.
These essays maintain that, in discussing the cultural
construction and representation of gender, the "culture" that is
abstracted from field data cannot be separated from a complex,
ongoing, and everchanging local process. From this point of view,
the editors conclude, the relationship of the sexes to each other
is best discussed in terms of the conflicts, tensions, and
paradoxes that are at the heart of daily life in many
societies.
Beyond the Second Sex will be of interest to students and
scholars of anthropology and women's studies.
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