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To: HG who wrote (261)	11/3/2004 6:29:29 PM
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More on Trobriand Islands Anthropologist Brownislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) combined sexual modernism with cultural relativism thru his research in Trobriand Islands, New Guinea. Trobriand Islanders have a matrilineal society that emphasises equality of the sexes and none of the sexual restraints and morals of the West. They do not associate childbirth with sex. Their children reside with their mothers and maternal uncles and are allowed to observe adults copulate. Malinowski found few signs aggression and neurosis in this society. He found more sexual repression and more neurosis in the neighborly Amphlett Islanders who followed a patriarchic system like the West. While Malinowski established the validity of psychodynamic theories on one hand - childhood experiences do provide a key to adult personality –he also proved that gender inequality and repression of female sex could be the basis for neurosis and repression in the West. Minowski’s findings were a blow to the psychodynamic theorists and Freud dismissed the research as “wishful femininist thinking.” Margaret Mead’s research in Samoa proved there was no connection between sex and sex-linked traits. She established femininity as a mere socio-cultural construct. Femininity did not exist (Buhle, 1984). Motherhood, a marker of sexual differentiation for Freud, is simply a transient condition for feminists, possibly avoided through contraceptives. Feminists deem human behavior to be unbelievably plastic. Except for the biological demarcation, they assert that gender roles can be readily switched.