wave two- feminism

Question 1

what does this focus on?

Answer 1

cross-cultural analyses of women and gender issues

Question 2

what did it attack?

Answer 2

the naive representations of native people as homogenous

Question 3

what did it examine?

Answer 3

examination of social construction of gender

Question 4

materialist perspectives

Answer 4

• Marx, Steward, Harris
• interest in how gender related activities could be analyzed using measures of social, economic, and political power
• alaysis of historical changes (especially colonialism and economic and political impact of the west) [’

Question 5

gender identities

Answer 5

not “natural”

Question 6

major anthropologists at the time

Answer 6

Eleanor Burke Leacock

Question 7

Eleanor Burke Leacock

Answer 7

1922-1987

Question 8

leading Marxist feminist anthropology

Answer 8

wide-ranging fieldwork

cultural materialist

Question 9

differentiates between sex and gender

Answer 9

gender differences due to economics
egalitarian in indigenous societies
changed by contact with Western world through colonialism

Question 10

3 stages of gender differentiation

Answer 10

1. kin-based societies (communal)
2. class system evolves and development of capitalism breaks population into those who control resources or labor and those who do not
   - women deprived of control over their labor even though domestic labor is essential to the reproduction of the workforce