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ANTHRCUL 101 1st Edition Lecture 27Outline of Last LectureI. Kinship SystemsII. Stebbins: Native Peoples of North AmericaIII. In-Class Kinship ExerciseOutline of Current LectureI. Gender and CultureII. Gender and EconomyIII. Gender, Stratification, and Public/Private SpaceIV. The Idea of Roles/StereotypesCurrent Lecture4/1: Sex, Gender, and Culture I. Gender and Culturea. Three ways to approach sex/ genderi. Gender defined as set of relationships based on biological notions of sex (based on biological binaries)ii. Gender defined as the “cultural construction” how meaning is applied to sexual difference (early 1980s) 1. Remains concerned with social justice issues of inequality between men2. “Masculinity” and “femininity” are different cross-culturally, so they can be examined as a cultural constructioniii. Gender defined as the “performance” of sexual difference (lending itself to forms of activism or intervention)b. Gender and Stratificationi. Patriarchy/ Matriarchyii. Feminization of Poverty: Unequal Gender based distribution of/ access to resourcesiii. Public/Private Divisions1. Linking public value to ownership, law, and wealth2. Private space linked to femininity, de-valued labor, often outside of the law3. Writing laws in US to make domestic violence a crime was an attempt to include the home as part of the law, have control over private space in order to punish domestic violence offenders These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.II. Gender and Economya. Women continue to make less money than men in the same jobs – mysteriously, nobody really knows why, because it isn’t legalb. Today there are a few jobs where women even make more money than men III. Gender, Stratification, and Public/Private Spacea. Polish Anti-Domestic Violence Campaign, 1997i. Largely a billboard campaign with huge pictures ofdomestic violenceii. “Because the soup was too salty”iii. Reaction in Poland was that everyone really hated thiscampaign1. Posted counter-campaigns picturing batteredmen “because he didn’t bring her flowers”2. Thought it was an attack on Polish men, etc.b. Public and Private mean something different in different places – what can the law do in a bedroom, etc.i. In Communist Eastern Europe, private space was seen as the most protected space, where images of the true nation were allowed to live apart from the stateii. Even when a marketing campaign elicits negative responses, doesn’t mean it’s not successful – ended up with a domestic violence lawIV. The Idea of Roles/Stereotypesa. Over-simplified but strongly held ideas about characteristics of gender b. Gender-based tasks and activities assigned by culturei. How does culture “assign”?c. Consider Masculinityi. “Tough Guise” (Film)1. To what extent do cultural forces box boys into becoming men?2. Sense of identity created through the media3. Men often wear masks/guises based on extreme images of masculinity that culture says make you a “man”4. Where do boys learn this?a. Media culture – presented in stereotypical roles, construct violence as an accepted part of


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