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Peggy Sanday (1937- ) |
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Peggy Sanday (1937- ) |
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| Biography |
| Born:
1937: Born on July 9, 1937 in Long Island, NY |
| Education -
1960: Receives B.A. at Columbia University 1966: Receives Ph.D. in Anthropology at University of Pittsburgh |
| Employment
1969 - 1972: Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Urban Affairs at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 1972 - present: Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
| Fieldwork:
Studied Minangkabau people nearly every year since 1981. Was in Indonesia in October 1998 |
| Personal - has two children - one boy and one girl |
| Major Works |
| "Female Status in the Public Domain", In Woman,
Culture, and Society. Michelle
Zimbalist Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere, eds. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1974. |
| Anthropology and the Public Interest: Fieldwork and
Theory, New York City: Academic
Press, 1976. (Sanday was Editor) |
| Female Power and Male Dominance: On the Origins of
Sexual Inequality, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1981. |
| Divine Hunger: Cannibalism as a Cultural System,
Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1986. |
| Beyond the Second Sex: New Directions in the Anthropology
of Gender, Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. (Sanday was co-Editor with Ruth Gallagher Goodenough) |
| Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege
on Campus, New York City:
New York University Press, 1990. |
| A Woman Scorned: Acquaintance Rape on Trial, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1996 |
| Current articles |
| "Fruit of the Motherland:Expanding the Feminist Debate"
Review of Maria Lepowsky's Fruit of the
Motherland:Gender in an Egalitarian Society. In Pacific Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 105-112. |
| "Rape-Prone Versus Rape-Free Campus Cultures". Published
in Violence Against Women, Vol. 2 No. 2, June
l996 191-208. [continuation of work on rape-prone and rape-free cultures] |
| "A Discourse-Centered Approach to Human Sexuality." Keynote
Address presented at Second Annual
Rutgers Anthropology Graduate Student Conference, Contemplating Sex, March 23, l996. Published in Crosscurrents: The Journal of Graduate Research in Anthropology, Vol. VIII, Autumn, l996. |
| "Skeletons in the Anthropological Closet: The Life Work
of William S. Willis, Jr." Chapter of Pioneers in
African-American Anthropology. Ira E. Harrison and Faye V. Harrison, eds. University of Illinois Press. 1998. |
| "Matriarchy as a Sociocultural Form:An Old Debate in
a New Light." Paper presented at 16th Congress of the
Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Melaka, Malaysia, 1-7 July, l998. |
| Her work on rape |
| Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege
on Campus - One specific occurrence of
a gang rape that occurred on a college campus in 1983; focuses on how men view rape, particularly the male college students. Basically, they thought that it was not rape because they did not have to use force even though she did not consent; they felt that they were merely taking advantage of the situation not the person. Describes gang rape as “a form of male bonding for which the female is merely an available instrument.” - Lois G. Forer, author of Foreword and judge in several rape cases. Included in the Introduction of Gang Rape -
A Woman Scorned: Acquaintance Rape on Trial - Society’s
reaction to rape and the history of
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| Sources |
| Sanday, Peggy. Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood,
and Privilege on Campus. New York:
New York University Press. 1990. |
| http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~psanday/ the Homepage of Peggy Reeves Sanday |
| Peacock, Scot, ed. Contemporary Authors.
Volume 157. New York: Gale Research, 1998. P.
371-373. |
 
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