Revija za sociologiju, Vol. 14 No. 3-4, 1984.
Izvorni znanstveni članak
Sex and Gender: Categories of the Social Organization of Sexuality
Žarana Papić
; Beograd
Sažetak
The author raises a critique of social sciences (such as sociology, psychology and history) which have not adopted the distinction between biological sex and the social organization of sexuality, that is, between the categories of sex and gender. Anthropology is an exception: it postulates the dialogue of cultures and relativizes “natural” laws, thus being more sensitive to the limits and methods of own discipline. The sex/gender distinction has become a fruitful and commonly used analytical tool in anthropology.
Reading Vera Erlich, the author discovers certain openness and flexibility of categories which relate essential, although fragmentary elements of the anthropology of gender. Vera Erlich expressed two principal, though insufficiently elaborated, points: that every culture interprets and appreciates distinctions between men and women differently; and that female sex is commonly associated with social strata which are low on the scale of hierarchy and cultural evaluation. Due to this surprising perceptivity for the concept of gender and gender asymmetry, Vera Erlich's writings are interesting to contemporary students of the anthropology of gender and feminist movement.
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155813
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Datum izdavanja:
31.12.1984.
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