Chapter 9 Lecture Flashcards
What is marriage?
A source of love, care, and commitment BUT governed by norms and laws that determine the rights and responsibilities of spouses.
What were the Puritanical beliefs around women and sexuality?
Women as a weaker vessel, not self-disciplined or rational. Women as unable to constrain desires (Eve and apple). Sex restricted to heterosexual couples with the aim of reproducing- nonmarital and nonreproductive prohibited.
How did the tribes of NA view sex and sexuality?
No ownership- tribes accepted intercourse and children in all forms prior to colonization and dehumanization by the white bitches.
How are property and paternity linked?
They emerged together as society industrialized- seen as the need to pass along wealth, control sexual freedom, and get legitimate financial heirs.
What were the rules of sex during the puritan era?
Strictly for reproduction- married couples also could not abstain to sex and women were encouraged to leave their husbands if they could not conceive. Sex was about group survival.
What is commodification?
Process by which goods transition from something a family provided for itself into something bought with a wage.
What was the trend of toddlers being in cages?
When families began living in cramped cities they added storage cages attached to windows for their toddlers to get fresh air- fresh air was also helpful for tuberculosis.
What were the ideas on sex and sexuality during the Victorian era?
Romantic era-advocated for sexual moderation and romantic love by feminists- sex as an expression of love. Women as motivated by love and men by sex.
What other ideas took hold during the Victorian era?
The idea of opposite sex and the sexual double standard.
What was the attempted strategy of early feminists when trying to convince of women’s equality?
Women became more spiritual- men as deeply tied to their bodies (Carnal and celestial), women as loving and not lustful.
What is the sexual double standard?
Different rules for the sexual behaviour of men and women.
What is the good girl/bad girl dichotomy?
Emerged during the Victorian era- idea that women who behave themselves sexually are worth of respect and women who do not are not worthy.
When did the idea of sex for pleasure come about?
1920s due to economic prosperity and the young beginning to work-idea of dating was invented.
What is calling?
When young men were invited to the home of the woman for chaperoned visits- dating before industrial rev.
When did the idea of “sexy” come about?
1923
What inspired the birth of mass entertainment and dating?
Concentrations of people with money, free time, and opportunities to socialize. The roaring 20s gave working class men and women opps to mingle.
How does the power balance shift with dating versus calling?
Dating: Men have money, women do not. Men have the power in the encounter and would treat (treating) women to nights out. With calling, women had control over who came by and when.
What is treating?
When a man funds a womans night on the town-establishments tried to keep up the idea that this was not like prostitution.
What was the Charleston dance invented to do?
Have men and women dance side by side as equals.
What is the idea behind the rules of attraction?
Men resented the idea of spending money to date women, so women had to make themselves look worth it by doing their hair, makeup, and dieting.
Why was sex dangerous for women in a time of growing sexual freedom?
Birth control was still limited by law.
What were the characteristics of the feminist movement in the 1800s-1900s?
Earliest feminist demands was for women to have legal right to own property rather than be property-this would eventually make other rights possible.
What is the idea of the breadwinner/housewife?
“Separate but equal” marraige model. Men and women contributions as different but complementary- no legal subordination but the roles are rigid and you could be sued for a breach of contract
What is the idea of unionization?
Men had right to support a home and a family on their wages alone.
