What is Françoise Héritier?
{{Infobox philosopher |name = Françoise Héritier |image = Françoise Héritier(2).jpg |image_size = 200px |caption = |birth_date = {{birth date|1933|11|15}} |birth_place = [[Veauche]], [[Loire (department)]], France |death_place = [[Paris]], France |nationality = French |field = Anthropology, ethnology |notable_ideas = The differential valence of the sexes |influences = [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]]<br>Alfred Radcliffe-Brown |death_date= {{death date and age|df=yes|2017|11|15|1933|11|15}} }} '''Françoise Héritier''' (15 November 1933 – 15 November 2017) was a French [[anthropology|anthropologist]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1570:paris-conference-highlights-womens-rights-abuses-in-iran&catid=3:special-wire|title=Paris conference highlights women's rights abuses in Iran|date=26 February 2005|work=Iran Focus|access-date=22 April 2014|archive-date=28 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181228083047/https://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1570:paris-conference-highlights-womens-rights-abuses-in-iran&catid=3:special-wire|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.franceinter.fr/personne-francoise-heritier|title = Françoise Héritier|date = August 2014|access-date = 14 October 2015|website = franceinter.fr}}</ref> ethnologist, and feminist.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.lejdd.fr/Culture/Livres/Actualite/Francoise-Heritier-evoque-son-livre-sur-l-histoire-des-femmes-interview-329061|title = Il est plus dur d'etre une femme que d'etre un homme|date = 16 June 2011|access-date = 14 October 2015|website = lejdd|archive-date = 10 October 2017|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171010054510/http://www.lejdd.fr/Culture/Livres/Actualite/Francoise-Heritier-evoque-son-livre-sur-l-histoire-des-femmes-interview-329061|url-status = dead}}</ref> She worked at the [[Collège de France]] (Chair of Comparative Studies of African Societies from 1