Analysis Of Sherry Ortner's Article Is Female To Culture

Sherry Ortner in the article “is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture” figured out that woman have been universally deliberated to be second rate to men throughout history by contend that women’s subordinate status is a result of the human mindset that human culture is superior to nature, that culture is man’s way of routing nature. Moreover, in Ortner’s viewpoint women’s body and psychology are witnessed as symbolically ascribable with nature inasmuch as men are regarded more associated with culture thus eventuate in the women being considered inferior to men. Women are considered closer to the nature by depending on some reasons firstly their psychology is seen as closer to nature such as menstruation, birth, etc. Here, by closer she means that both men and women are seen as relating to both nature and culture however, males are perceived as "closer" to culture, and females "closer" to nature.

For example, the idea about biological difference between men and women take on connotation only within culturally defined value system. Moreover, she figured it out that in every culture women has a lower value. So, she believe that only nature can solve this distinction. Apart from it, Moore focused on two argument of Ortner. For instance, women physiology and her reproductive system make her appear closer to the nature. Afterward, Woman is domestic domain. In perspective of the domestic family women are primarily combined with the rearing of children and implicit association between children and nature is