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Gender for the 99 per cent (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate )
Author(s) -
Lindisfarne Nancy,
Neale Jonathan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
anthropology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-8322
pISSN - 0268-540X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8322.12059
Subject(s) - inequality , elite , embodied cognition , race (biology) , sociology , class (philosophy) , gender studies , gender inequality , social inequality , order (exchange) , political science , law , epistemology , economics , politics , mathematical analysis , philosophy , mathematics , finance
This article looks at the ways elite actors – men and women – try to reinforce gender inequality in order to justify class inequality. In class societies, elites try to naturalize inequality. They often use race or religion, but they always use gender. Gender buttresses class inequality so well because of the way it is embodied – it brings inequality into the most intimate, treasured and loving parts of our lives.