A person that I
admire within anthropology in Gayle Rubin. She was born in 1949. Rubin is
a US cultural anthropologist, better known as an activist and an influential
theorist on sex and gender policy.
One of his most important essays
is: “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex”. In
this essay Gayle Rubin explains very well the fact that the gender is a
social construction that determines the ways of being male and female. So, she
says that this division gives rise to the oppression of women. In her analysis
Gayle Rubin argues that the relationships between sex and gender make up a
"system that varies from society to society," establishing that the
place of oppression of women and sexual minorities is in what she calls the sex
/ gender system.
I'm interested in Gayle
Rubin because she is one of the few women anthropologists who do theory
and who do it from feminism, and because I think it's important to know
that there is no single way to be a man and a woman, or roles that must be
met to be male or female.
It is quite interesting the work of gayle rubin, I remember when I learned about it, it helped me to see in a different way certain problematic about the oppression that we suffered.
ReplyDeleteIt's so interesting, Pia! I didn't read Rubin yet, but i will research about her in internet. Thanks!!
ReplyDeleteSo interesting! I agree with the idea that roles of gender variate from culture to culture, so are the constructions that can press groups, like in our society the women.
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