Feminism

• Most human behaviour can be explained from a women's point of view. Women can be controlled and exploited by men.
• Most ethnographies cannot be trusted as it has been carried out by men and tends to be biased towards a man's view of the world.
• Anthropologists need to draw attention to the suffering of women in order to encourage change.
• Margaret Mead


  She studied a range of societies and helped break down prejudices about what is 'natural' to men and women. Some isolated societies had none of the cultural norms associated with gender. Nature vs nurture debate - she argued that it is nurture.
• Sherry Ortner 


  Found that women are insubordinate to men in every known culture, most use nature as a reason for women being inferior. Women are physiologically disadvantaged because they menstruate - this is a good excuse to assign women all the 'natural roles', leaving men free to develop and maintain culture.