Women's Studies 2163A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Exogamy, Endogamy, Ethnocentrism
12 Feb 2019
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Most sex ed. does not cover pregnancy at all, which is interesting since pregnancy is most often used as a scare tactic and is very intertwined with sexual behaviours. It"s okay not to know why you know things, but it"s important to know how to access that data to back up your beliefs. Point 1: your information (what you think you know) is inextricably tied to your specific context (education, identity, culture, society, roles, beliefs systems, ethnicity, language, etc. ) and. Point 2: when encountering different beliefs or information about how something works (even something as "basic" as sex), seek to understand the background/context of this perspective before judging/thinking yourself "superior" Family is a universal feature of humans - a created institution; not a biological/inevitable fact. All cultures have rules about who you should partner with and/or reproduce with: Endogamy, exogamy (within the group e. g. jewish vs outside the group)
