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sex roles, power, and illness in an Egyptian village
Author(s) -
MORSY SOHEIR
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1978.5.1.02a00100
Subject(s) - power (physics) , context (archaeology) , index (typography) , sociology of health and illness , competition (biology) , sociology , incidence (geometry) , psychology , demography , gerontology , social psychology , gender studies , medicine , economics , history , economic growth , health care , ecology , biology , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , world wide web , computer science , optics
Some recent studies have reintroduced women into the arena of anthropology as social actors engaged in the manipulation of their environment and the exercise of choice. The purpose of this paper is to question the utility of approaching the study of sex roles in terms of individual strategies and competition for power. This is pursued within the context of the study of health‐related behavior. The incidence of a folk illness and symptomatology derived from the Cornell Medical Index are utilized as indices of patterned power differentials associated with sex role expectations in an Egyptian village.