SOCIOL 2PP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gender Equality, Cultural Anthropology, Social Reproduction
4 Oct 2017
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Studied montagnais-naskapi of labrador (an aboriginal foraging society that lived in quebec, Important and dynamic relationship between the way that production is organized in a society and how family life is organized, including: social reproduction, sexuality, marriage, reproduction. How it promotes class based and race based inequalities. Studies of the innu (changing gender relations) Contributions to feminist anthropology, marxist feminist theory, political activism. Challenge to ideas that no truly communist society had ever existed and that private property existed in foraging society. Childhood important in shaping her theory and political activism. Parents high educated, had a farm, shared household labour; experienced sex discrimination. Resources were not privately owned (right to hunt, sh, gather food, etc. was shared) African-americans, etc. poor because the cultural values they had promoted poverty. Challenged feminists (who felt families promoted gender inequalities) Argued that there are societies where men and women do different tasks, but does not mean they are unequal.
