Feminist anthropology

A dissertation Feminist Anthropology introduces the branch of cultural anthropology developed in The Seventies of 20th century as a reaction to androcentric approach within this subject and science generally. It charts history of feminist anthropology, its intellectual sources, main theories, terms, scientists and methods. The main focus of the dissertation is on anthropological approach to gender - sexual identity shaped and shared by the culture. The central topic is an exploration, how the gender relations and male and famale spheres have been studied within cultural anthropology and how does the gender of researchers influence the research. Because feminist anthropology has roots in feminist movement, the dissertation initially introduces history and goals of European and American feminism. Feminist anthropology also has found inspiration in many anthropological lines, schools and in other social sciences, which it has used as a base of its theories or has reinterpreted it from gender perspective. The disseration offers view of these intellectual sources. In next part the disseration presents life and work of the first professional women anthropologists like Alice Cunningham Fletcher, Elsie Clews Parsons and Eleanor Burke Leacock. From the golden age of feminist anthropology it offers a view of the most..