Sherry Ortner
Sherry Ortner · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Feminist anthropologist known for the essay 'Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?'
1941, Newark, New Jersey, USA
United States · Nepal (Sherpa fieldwork)
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Ortner is an American cultural anthropologist whose 1974 essay 'Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?' became a foundational text of feminist anthropology, arguing that the near-universal subordination of women is cultural rather than natural. Her later work on practice theory, Sherpa religion and social class is widely cited. She was born into a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey.
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Feminist anthropologist known for the essay 'Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?'
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