Peggy Reeves Sanday

"In Women at the Center Sanday uses her repeated visits to West Sumatra in the closing decades of the twentieth century as the basis for a new definition of matriarchy. From the vantage point of daily life in villages, especially one where she developed close personal ties, Sanday's narrative centers on how the Minangkabau conceive of their world and think humans should behave, along with the practices and rituals they claim uphold their matriarchate."--BOOK JACKET.

Life in a Modern Matriarchy

Women at the Center

Reeves (psych, U. of Penn.) presents case studies of rape--usually the victim is drunk or high on drugs. The work ends with details of frat initiations demonstrating the inculcation of sexist and brutish attitudes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus

Fraternity Gang Rape

In this bracing study of American sexual culture and the politics of acquaintance rape, esteemed anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday identifies the sexual stereotypes that continue to obstruct justice and diminish women. Beginning with a harrowing account of the St. John's rape case, Sanday reaches back through British and American landmark rape cases to explain how, with the exception of earliest Colonial times, rape has been a crime notable for placing the woman on trial. A ground-breaking work of scholarship, A Woman Scorned brings a broader perspective to our understanding of acquaintance rape and envisions, finally, a new paradigm for female sexual equality.

Acquaintance Rape on Trial

A Woman Scorned

Describes the explicit sexual crimes committed in college fraternities, and argues that both male bonding and pornography contribute to sexual harassment, date rape, and gang rape

ggy Reeves Sanday

Applying data from over 150 tribal societies to scales developed to measure power and dominance, Sanday offers answers to basic questions regarding male and female power. The view that emerges conforms to no particular theoretical perspective.

On the Origins of Sexual Inequality

Female Power and Male Dominance

Maurice Godelier

A new approach to understanding the phenomenon of ritual cannibalism through a detailed examination of selected tribal societies demonstrates that the practice is closely linked to people's orientation to the world, and helps distinguish "cultural self."

Cannibalism as a Cultural System

Divine Hunger

Ruth Gallagher Goodenough

Addresses the conflict, contradictions and ambiguities that are often encountered in field research.

Peggy Reeves Sanday

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