Eleanor Burke Leacock, Myths of Male Dominance, 1981 ✓

Eleanor Burke Leacock , Myths of Male Dominance : Collected Articles on Women Cross-Culturally, Monthly Review Press , 1981, 344 pages, ISBN : 0-85345-538-4 (pbk) ( newisbn) ISBN : 0-85345-537-6 ( newisbn).

C'est un recueil d'articles. J'avais pensé simplement mettre la date entre parenthèses après le titre, mais elle indique parfois que l'article a été raccourci ou autrement modifié, ce qui m'oblige à reprendre plutôt toute sa phrase. (Mais, tout bien réfléchi, je mets quand même une date pour situer l'époque du premier coup d'œil.)

1Preface13 1. Introduction: Engels and the History of Women’s Oppression (1979)

This essay was first published in Women Cross-Culturally : Change and Challenge, Ruby Rohrlich-Leavitt, ed. The Hague: Mouton, 1979. It has been slightly cut to avoid repetition.

Part I
Women in an Egalitarian Society : The Montagnais-Naskapi of Canada33 2. The Montagnais-Naskapi (1978)

This essay was first published in the Encyclopedia of Mankind, London: Marshall Cavendish Ltd., 1978.

39 3. Status Among the Montagnais-Naskapi of Labrador (1958)

This paper was originally part of a symposium on “Social Stratification and Evolutionary Theory” held at the 1957 meetings of the American Anthropological Association. It was first published in Ethnohistory 5, no. 3 (Summer 1958). It has been slightly cut.

43 4. Montagnais Women and the Jesuit Program for Colonization (1976)

This essay is based in large part on a paper written in collaboration with Jacqueline Goodman (Leacock and Goodman 1976) and was originally published in Women and Colonization : Anthropological Perspectives, Etienne and Leacock, eds. New York: Praeger, 1980.

63 5. Matrilocality Among the Montagnais-Naskapi (1955)

This essay was fist published as “Matrilocality in a Simple Hunting Economy”, in Southwestern Journal of Anthropology Vol 11, no. 1 ( Spring 1955).

Part II
Social Evolution: From Egalitarianism to Oppression85 6. Introduction to Lewis Henry Morgan, Ancient Society, Parts I, II, III, IV (1974)

These are the introductions to Lewis Henry Morgan, Ancient Society, Parts I, II, III and IV. Gloucester, Ma.: Peter Smith, 1974. They have been slightly cut.

133 7. Women’s Status in Egalitarian Society: Implications for Social Evolution (1978)

This paper is based on one originally given at the 1974 meetings of the American Anthropological Association. It was first published with several comments in Current Anthropology 19, no. 2 (June 1978). Only Ronald Cohen's comment is included here with that part of Leacock’s reply which refers to it. Bruce Cox's comment and Leacock’s reply were first published in Current Anthropology 20, no. 2 (June 1979). Ruth Landes’ comment and Leacock’s reply were first published in Current Anthropology 20, no. 1 (March 1979).

183 8. Review of Evelyn Reed, Women’s Evolution

Critique assez sévère, justement à mon sens. J'avais trouvé — à première vue — idiot ce livre Reed 1974 et je n'avais pas eu le courage de le lire entièrement. Mais Eleanor Leacock a aussi défendu Reed contre une critique qu'elle a jugé excessive : « Comment on Harriet Whitehead's Review of Woman's Evolution (Vol. 1, No. 3, Pt. 1) », Signs : Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 1976. Cette critique-ci n'a peut être jamais été publiée avant le présent livre de 1981.

Part III
Myths of Male Dominance: Discussion and Debate197 9. Society and Gender (1978)

This essay was first published in Genes and Gender, Tobach and Rosafa, eds. New York: Guardian Press, 1978.

205 10. Review of Margaret Mead, Male and Female (1952)

This review was first published in the Daily Worker, June 1952.

209 11. Structuralism and Dialectics (1978)

This review was first published in Reviews in Anthropology 5, no. 1 (1978).

222 12. The Changing Family and Levi-Strauss, or Whatever Happened to Fathers ? (1977)

This essay was first published in Social Research 44, no. 2 (Summer 1977). It has been slightly cut to avoid repetition.

242 13. Ideologies of Sex : Archetypes and Stereotypes
Eleanor Leacock and June Nash (1977)

This essay was first published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Science 285 (1977). It has been slightly cut.

264 14. Review of Steven Goldberg, The Inevitability of Patriarchy
Eleanor Leacock and Steven Goldberg (1974-1975)

This review was first published in the American Anthropologist 76, no. 2 (June 1974). Steven Goldberg's response and Leacock's reply were first published in the American Anthropologist 77 no. 1 (March 1975).

280 15. Social Behavior, Biology, and the Double Standard (1980)

This essay was first published in Sociobiology : Beyond Nature/Nurture ? Barlow and Silverberg, eds. Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 1980.

Part IV
Conclusion: Politics and the Ideology of Male Dominance305 16. Political Ramifications of Engels’ Argument on Women’s Subjugation

This is a section of the introduction to Frederick Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. New York: International, 1972.

310 17. Women, Development, and Anthropological Facts and Fiction (1977)

This is a revised version of a paper originally given at the Conference on Women and Development, Wellesley College, Wellesley Ma., June 2-6, 1976. It was first published in Latin American Perspectives 4, nos. 1 and 2 (Winter-Spring 1977). It has been slightly cut.

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