ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Marcel Mauss, Gayle Rubin, Symbolic Power
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Two propositions today: the exchange of women is alive and well. Tina needs carter and vice versa (aspect of instrumentality is present) for example, tina helps carter feel like a person and a human being (a human is someone that loves and is loved) and vice versa. A woman who has a sex with a man deserves something in return (if not money, then a relationship, status, love) Tina"s story is ambivalent with the myth of romantic love and labour in the hopes of getting something in return (want, need and expect something for the love we give). Examples are seen in the vocabulary she uses when describing the different relationships she has had with all the men in her life. How does a female body become an oppressed woman : she"s saying that they are bodily, physically differences between a man and a woman but why does a body (a physical thing) culturally divide a woman and man .
