ANT329H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Elinor Ochs, Tag Question, Ovule
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Readings: tannen -you just don"t understand: men and women in conversation, intimacy and independence. Socialization: solving problems - sympathy, rapport talk and report talk, example of the comfort of home, cooperative overlapping, martin - the woman in the body. Male and female bodies thought as similar in the ancient greece. Composition of a common set of metaphors to refer to the operation of the body. Anciently difference in hierarchy but not in kind (degree of heat). But the natural order is not a ground for social order anymore (french revolution, locke, ). Biological science eventually saved the male superiority anyway. Menstruation seen as pathological (the process itself and not only the. Then metaphors of the factory, information science, management and control (dna, ). Idea of regress: cameron - performing gender identity: young men"s talk and the construction of heterosexual masculinity .
