Anthropology Quote by Clifford Geertz

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology

— Clifford Geertz

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

— Clifford Geertz

Women have their uses for historians.

— Ronald Syme

patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as minorities, with…

— Hazel Henderson

There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the…

— Florence King

Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and…

— Camille Paglia

.Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if…

— Adrienne Rich

Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.

— Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

I feel that women - without wishing to foster any strict separatist notions, homo or hetero - indeed have a need for their own…

— Lorraine Hansberry

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have…

— Clifford Geertz

There needs to be more women scholars, and that is not something new, we need to return to the glorified past and get more…

— Mark Durie

... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can…

— Adrienne Rich