Unit 9 Flashcards
a model of marriage in which women and children are owned by men
Patriarch/Property Marriage
a model of marriage that involves a wage-earning spouse supporting a stay-at-home spouse and children
Breadwinner/Homemaker Marriage
an income, paid to a man, that is large enough to support a non-working wife and children
Family wage
promoting heterosexuality as the only or preferred sexual identity, making other sexual desires invisible or casting them as inferior
Heteronormative
the idea that the home is a feminine space best tended by women and work is a masculine space best suited to men
Ideology of separate spheres
promoting monogamy, or the requirement that spouses have sexual relations only with each other
Mononormative
promoting childbearing and stigmatizing choosing to go child-free
Pro-natal
the production of unjust outcomes for people who perform femininity
Androcentrism
a relationship model based on love and companionship between equals
Partnership unions
the production of unjust outcomes for people perceived to be biologically female
Sexism
a research method in which participants are asked to self-report their activities at regular intervals over at least twenty-four hours
Time-use diary
the form of masculinity that constitutes the most widely admired and rewarded kind of person in any given culture
Hegemonic masculinity
the unpaid work of housekeeping and childcare that faces family members once they return home from their paid jobs
Second shift
A social institution that demands total commitment from its members and overrides the established separation of social life into different spheres, such as work, home, leisure, politics, and religion
Greedy institutions
an arrangement in which one partner does more paid work than childcare and housework, and the other does the inverse
Specialized division of labor