of her article speaks for itself, writing against culture. There are many issues that she brings up about culture, and various influential strategies for shifting over from the culture concept. She reflects on culture and its need to be redefined. In her discussion of culture and difference she opens with, most American anthropologists believe or act as if culture, notoriously resistant to definition and ambiguous of referent, is nevertheless the true object of anthropological inquiry, (Abu-Lughod, p. 143). She illustrates how essential culture is to anthropology and how anthropology helps to balance culture, as well as its ties with race. She considers culture and race as opposites. Culture is learned and can change, (Abu-Lughod, p. 144), and race is something inborn. Although she can only depict and explain the concept of culture, and how it has become necessary and not the reasons behind it.Lila Abu-Lughod also writes about feminism in regard to culture. It has been important for most feminists to locate sex differences in culture, not biology or nature, (Abu-Lughod, p. 144). There have been many cultural differences between women and men, a different voice perhaps from Anglo-American feminist Gilligan and her followers, (Abu-Lughod, p. 145), as well as an explanation of the differences, whether through a socially informed psychoanalytic theory, a Marxist-derived theory of the effects of the division of labour and womens role in social reproduction, an analysis of maternal practice or even a theory of sexual exploitation, (Abu-Lughod, p. 145). With that there has been an increasingly large demand for more women oriented culture, a place where they can express themselves and learn about their gender culture, and not that of men. That is to say, if women share something in common, it is not the result of a universal bodily maturational process but of mutually experienced interpolations of race, class, and sexual orientati...
