SOCIOL 2PP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Eleanor Leacock, Marxist Feminism, Marital Power
14 Nov 2017
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Eleanor leacock anthropology groups: studied montagnais-naskapi of labrador (an aboriginal foraging society that lived in quebec, newfoundland, and labrador) Foraging societies: non-privatized living arrangements, inhibits violence. Women benefit because childbearing is shared and seen as a community responsibility. They also benefit because if they are in an abusive relationship, people can see what is happening and everything is visible: norm of co-operation and sharing. Women are doing most of the work, and providing most of the food for the family. Men are taking care of the children and doing housework. People are dependent on each other: no private property, classless societies, no social hierarchy. Everyone has access to the means for subsistence. The (cid:498)camp(cid:499) was the residential unit, unit of consumption (where you eat and make food), where childcare takes place: democratic decision making. Decisions are made collectively, women included: fluid gender roles, women are not economically dependent on their husbands. Monogamy was not the norm, extramarital relationships were permitted.
