Feminist Anthropology Meets Development

Fenneke Reysoo

Chapter 2 in Under Development: Gender, 2014, pp 42-60 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter reflects on the emergence of feminist scholarship in anthropology and its contribution to “gender and development” as a social field of policies and practices. Generally speaking, anthropology as a discipline has been very conducive to studying the variety of human social organisation and cultural meaning systems. In the aftermath of the Second World War, which paralleled the liberation struggles in the colonies, the scientific landscape of anthropology evolved into a divide between a “pure” scientific and a “critical” orientation. “Pure” scientific in the sense of a value-free approach, and critical in the sense that the knowledge produced was considered to be useful for the emancipation of “oppressed” groups in the “Third World”, such as peasants, landless labourers and women (Wertheim, 1974; Huizer and Mannheim, 1979).

Keywords: Poor Woman; Feminist Scholarship; Cultural Critique; Cultural Constraint; American Ethnologist (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137356826_3

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