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Since the early 1970s, Shirley Ardener has applied her intellect, creativity and enthusiasm to the development of women's studies at the University of Oxford and further afield. Her contribution to social anthropology and women's studies is revealed in the chapters of this book and in her innumerable publications. She recognised the similarity between the 'consciousness-raising' proposed by Western feminist movements and the social anthropological techniques of 'isolating from their context statements which though trivial in themselves carry assumptions with wider significance' (Ardener 1978: 45, n. 9). The category 'women' was problematised in different contexts; individual cultural models of women -i.e., the set of ideas which together represent women in the minds of those who have generated the model (S. Ardener 1975: xi) -were seen to hold no ultimate theoretical or moral primacy. These approaches increased ways of considering women in society. Shirley Ardener's paper 'Sexual Insult and Female Militancy', read in February 1971 at the core weekly seminar convened by lecturers John Beattie and Peter Lienhardt at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, discusse

Author

Janette Davies; Jacqueline Waldren

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Published

2022

Language

EN