ANTH 157 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Patrilocal Residence
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Q: give an example of gender and kinship from past readings. Oboler: the female husbands / woman-woman marriage the women in these marriages still take on the gender roles of the males. They run the family / household and make most of the decisions. Partridge: women here have the power because they can decide if the black men can stay in germany by deciding to marry them. Q: compare these ^ to the han chapter: Han: women lack power in the two modes of production (pcmp and tmp) Han: specified gender roles for each gender and women didn"t have as much ~ so inflexibility in gender roles. But, there was more flexibility in the baifu society with the gender roles than in the. [but: just because there"s more flexibility, doesn"t mean there"s more equality! ] Han: nanyi and baifu took measures to extend the patriline. Canning: woman-to-woman marriage differ from that in us with the lesbian marriage.