Leacock e os fundamentos da subordinação da mulher

Abstract

The study proposed here intends to present the ontological foundations of the subordination of women, based on the researches of the American anthropologist Eleanor Burke Leacock, published in Myths of Male Dominance: Collected Articles on Women Cross-Culturally. The European colonial period, which enabled the disintegration of egalitarian societies, integrating them into the logic of private property and the production of goods, was the historical context in which the egalitarian society of montagnais-naskapi, object of Leacock's investigation, had its relations founded on cooperative work completely destroyed. The analysis of this author's work showed that the egalitarian relations existing between the groups of the Labrador Peninsula, based on cooperation, autonomy and solidarity, which prevented hierarchies based on sex, were undermined by their dependence on the fur trade, which it forced the introduction of private property and, through it, the institutionalization of the monogamous family. It was in this process that women became subordinate.