SOCC29H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Israeli Jews, Infant Mortality, Women In Nazi Germany
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Lecture 6, february 9, 2016 children and childrearing in yemen. What do women have to offer to men: financial support, physical protection, and social respectability, children, emotional support/companionship, obedience/deference (men get a presence of prestige) These risks seem to fall upon those unlucky men. System of patriarchy come with benefits for men and women, but certain groups of men and women face certain vulnerability as they do not fit into the certain mode that society has. Patriarchal risk if women lacks male guardianship there are certain risks that she may face. Inhorn: heightened domesticity among poor urban women in egypt. Women"s lives today are centered on their private domestic role compared to the past. They are more confined to home compared to before and infertility affects them much more severly. Argues: generally, in egypt there has been a population movement from rural areas to urban areas. Changes in egyptian economy has caused a great wave of urbanization.
