Month: April 2025

Sexuality: Feminist anthropology examines how sexuality is socially constructed and how it shapes power dynamics and personal identity across cultures.

Reproductive Labor: The work traditionally carried out by women, such as childcare, housework, and caregiving, which is often undervalued or invisible in both anthropology and society.

Critique of Objectivity: Feminist anthropology critiques traditional anthropological notions of objectivity, arguing that anthropologists’ gendered perspectives affect their research and interpretations.

Ethnography of Gender: The study of gender roles and relations in different societies, often focused on how gender intersects with other social categories like age, class, or ethnicity.

Sexual Division of Labor: The idea that in most societies, labor is divided along gender lines, with women and men often assigned different tasks and responsibilities.

Women’s Studies: A discipline closely associated with feminist anthropology that focuses on women’s experiences, roles, and contributions across cultures.

Intersectionality: The concept that social identities such as gender, race, class, and sexuality intersect and cannot be understood in isolation, influencing people’s experiences of oppression and privilege.

Patriarchy: A social system where men hold power and dominate women in many aspects of life, a key concept in feminist anthropology for understanding gender inequality.

Gender: In feminist anthropology, gender is understood as a social construct that varies across cultures and societies, rather than being biologically determined.

Feminist Anthropology: An approach to anthropology that critiques traditional anthropological methods and perspectives, emphasizing gender as a central factor in understanding social structures, cultures, and historical processes.