Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

Culture is public, because meaning is

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now