Eleanor Burke Leacock (1 mars 1922 – 8 nov 1987)

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ABOUT
- American, PhD at Columbia, taught at City College New York
- fieldwork with indigenous communities in Canada and Labrador
- deeply invested in feminist anthropology and marxist anthropology
- also active in feminist activism in the 1970s

MAJOR WORKS
- Myths of Male Dominance: Collected Articles on Women Cross-Culturally (1981)
- Introduction to "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" (1972, by Friedrich Engels)

CONTRIBUTIONS
- critiqued the notion of universal patriarchy: the idea that male dominance has existed across all societies throughout history
- bridging feminist theory with political economy
- work with indigenous populations demonstrated that colonialism was not just an economic and political project but also a cultural and gendered one

CRITIQUES
- focus on economics and historical materialism = economic determinism
- class-based analyses are not always sufficient for understanding gender relations
- portrayal of pre-colonial indigenous societies as egalitarian and non-patriarchal has been critiqued for romanticizing these societies and potentially overlooking internal complexities and power dynamics

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