cultural relativism
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On David Lancy’s The Anthropology of Childhood, and violence against women (again!), and proscriptive parenting advice.
The anthropology of what childhood looks like in different cultures does not, in fact, suggest that all children “turn out fine.”
aborting female fetuses, Amartya Sen, An Uncertain Glory, Andrew Solomon, Anthropology of Childhood, attachment parenting, autism, autism acceptance, Changelings, Chattel, Cherubs, child-rearing, childhood education, childhood nutrition, children, children all turn out fine, cultural relativism, cultural relativity, David Lancy, education spending, Far from the Tree, health spending, Hillary Clinton, India, infant mortality, It Takes a Village, Jean Dreze, medical ethics, medical spending on rare diseases, Michael Erand, misogyny, New York Times, New York Times recommendations, parenting, proscriptive parenting advice, sex-selection, spending on childhood education, stay-at-home father, The Only Baby Book You’ll Ever Need, Uncertain Glory
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On violence against women.
This is the first in a series. Read the second one here. Quick caveat: this essay will be unpleasant. Given the title, you can probably guess the nature of the impending unpleasantness. So, if you think that’s a topic you shouldn’t be reading about right now, then you should skip this. But it’s something I…
Against Our Will, ancient sexual assault trials, Bible, Christianity, consensual kissing does not imply consent to further physical affection, cultural relativism, dueling to let God dictate which party to a trial is more honest, ellusive justice, erasure, feminism, Homer, Kampan versus Valmiki Ramayanas, making fiction less horrible than reality so that readers aren’t too upset, Martin Van Creveld, Oliver Fallon, rape, removing charms before a duel, sexual assault, sexual assault trials, sexual violence as social control, silenced text, silenced voices, Susan Brownmiller, The Death of Ravana, the oppression of fear, underlying misogyny of various religious traditions, Valmiki, was Supranakha punished for sexual empowerment, who writes history, women shackled to rotten husbands
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