ANTHR310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bell Hooks, Elinor Ochs, Intersectionality
23 Sep 2016
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Can non-human things be gendered: principles, attributes, cosmic forces, objects, acts, moral virtues, the earth, nations, etc. For sufis, even though they have decided that god doesn"t have gender, the quran is explained as the lettering having gender roles, and. God/mohammad has masculine god traits: they say that there are two forms of creation . To ascribe gender to something is often to scribe certain moral or other characteristics: do motherland" and fatherland" have different implications? . If a county is in peril, they are way more likely to refer to their land as the motherland ; attacking the mother is seen as very offensive, she needs to be protected. Gender metaphors help imagine non-human phenomena in human terms and vice verse: seed and soil reproductive metaphor. When you are planting seeds in the earth, you receive that type of plant from the earth when it grows.
