blahMon finish gender, start childhood, do not read articles on childrearing (read CP), Exam III Wed
more on Gender Rituals
Masai:
- inforce (warrior) male dominance
- provide instruction for adult roles
- establish links between youth and elders
- weeding out process , ideal male
- establish peer links
failure consequences:
- feast wasted
- mother (or surrogate) punished for raising her)
- family cattle holdigns stampeded from pen
Yemen:
- celebration of male: reaffirming status of male
- donating money to start his life
Turkey:
- coming of age
- peer links
- distance from parents
- gender differentiation
subincision:
- (Aboriginees)
- secondary or tertiarty coming-of age rite
- (20 years span)
- penis is split and sand or ash is added to cut, causing recogniziable scarring
Roles and Activitites of Males and Females:
- old theory: based on biology:
- strength
- child birth
- child care
- division of labour data from table CP p 105
- photo: Haiti water run, headtotting
- women can headtote upto 70 % (spending ?% more energy)
- man with a pack can carry upto 40 % body weight (spending 35% more energy)
- men seems unable to headtote (center of gravity)
- photo: mayan woman totting firewood 50+ lbs
- chart: 1995 study: Occupations with the smallest participation of women (USA)
- Russia: after WWII 70% of all construction was by women
- over 50% Russian truck drivers female
- chart: ( 1995 )women dominated jobs (USA)
- if not biology?:
- subsistence modes:
- (Washo Indians: hunt and gather together)
- (Hamar: herding community, men own herds)
- (Washo Indians: hunt and gather together)
- ties to home:
- Islamist purdah
- housing,seclusion
- clothing
- image: burka? body scarf
- de-emphasizing physical appearance
- similarity to habit/wimple
- safety
- excerpts from 1950s N. American Home Economics textbooks
- subsistence modes:
- control of key resources
- trade of exchange
- gender preferences
- religious traditions
Tuareg (N. Africa):
- expectation of male modesty
- men wear head coverings, women do not
ho: essay questions for Exam III (Wed)
