Background
Leacock, Eleanor Burke was born on July 2, 1922 in Weehawken, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of Kenneth Duva and Lily Mary (Batterham) Burke.
( “Highly recommended, both as a critically presented sta...)
“Highly recommended, both as a critically presented state-of-the-art discussion and as an account of how one’s personal/political history informs the process of scientific inquiry.”—Choice This classic anthropological study debunks the many myths behind the idea of “natural” male superiority. Drawing on extensive historical and cross-cultural research, Eleanor Burke Leacock shows that claims of male superiority are based on carefully constructed myths with no factual historical basis. She also documents numerous historical examples of egalitarian gender relations. Eleanor Burke Leacock (1922–1987) was well-known for her ethnographic work among primitive societies, and her research is still a formative influence among feminist anthropologists.
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Leacock, Eleanor Burke was born on July 2, 1922 in Weehawken, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of Kenneth Duva and Lily Mary (Batterham) Burke.
AB cum laude, Barnard College, 1944. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1946. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 195l.
Staff Yorkville Mental Health Project. Research assistant Cornell University Medical College, New York City, 1952-1955. Lecturer Queens College, 1955-1956, College City New York, 1956-1960.
Research associate Bank St. College Education, New York City, 1958-1965. Associate professor Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, 1964-1967, professor, 1967-1972. Professor anthropology City College, City University New York, since 1972, chairman department, 1972-1975, 78-84.
Danforth associate, 1975-1981. President Council on Anthropology and Education, 1979-1980. Visiting Hill professor University Minnesota, winter 1980, Laboratoire d'Anthropologic Sociale, Paris, spring 1985.
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Board directors New York Council for Humanities, since 1983. Fellow Society Applied Anthropology (executive committee 1972-1975), New York Academy of Sciences (executive committee anthropology section 1984-1986 ), American Anthropological Association (executive board 1971-1973). Member American Indian Ethnohistoric Conference (secretary-treasurer 1961-1965), American Association for the Advancement of Science (program chairman 1960, secretary anthropology section 1962-1965), American Ethnological Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Richard Leacock, December 27, 1941 (divorced May 1962). Children: Elspeth, Robert, David, Claudia. Married James Haughton, 1966.