Week 11 (Gender)

Question 1

Man the Hunter: The Story

Answer 1

Evolutionary theory
* Male dominance.
* Cooperative hunts
* “molded the man”
* Man the food provider

Cult of domesticity
* True womanhood

Question 2

Man the Hunter: The Story II

Answer 2

Women have been a stable provider of food
* Foragers groups
* Horticulturalists

Narrow definition of “meat getting”
* Processing can be time consuming

Pregnancy is not an obstacle.
* Family planning
* Multiple caretakers

Question 3

Patriarchy

Answer 3

• Male dominated political and authority structure and an ideology that prefer
  men over women in every strata of society
• Well known

Question 4

Matriarchy

Answer 4

• Female dominated political and authority structure and an ideology that
  prefer women over men in every strata of society.
• Not to be confused with Matrilineal or matrilocal.
• Still debated.

Question 5

School of Thought

Answer 5

Role of feminism
* Rejection of biological determinism
* Role of culture
* Ideology

Question 6

Gender I

Answer 6

Gender Ideology
* Beliefs
* Behavior
* Meanings

Gender vs. Sex
* Biological determinism.
* Gender is not the same as sex.
* Beyond binary genders (dualistic model of
gender)
* Zuni people
* Third gender
- Hijira

Question 7

Binary Cultures

Answer 7

Segregation between the genders
* Hostile relationship

Public vs. Private spheres
* Symbolic
* The public dominated by men
* The private dominated by women.

Sanctions, shame and honor
* Breaking social acceptable behavior.

Question 8

Complementary and Fluid Cultures

Answer 8

Not all binary cultures are gender-segregated.
* iKung
* Trobriand Islanders

Different needs
* Lahu

Androgynous
* iKung San
* Native American Washoe

Question 9

Work in the Modern Age

Answer 9

Family wage ideology
* Justifying wage gap between genders.

First, second and Third shifts
* The idea of equality
* Women overworked and invisible

Second shift
* Women do household chores.
* Chronic exhaustion.

The Third shift
* Home becomes work.
* Making up emotionally for never having family time.
* Home becomes more “masculine”

Question 9

Work

Answer 9

Sexual division of labor
* Some “men’s work”
* “Women’s work”

4 categories of human’s work
* Production
* Reproduction
* Status enhancement
* Morale building

Can marge and overlap