SOC365H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Marxist Feminism, Animal Sexual Behaviour, Consanguinity
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Gender relations lecture 6: marxist feminism: 2 theorists, engels: 1st: consanguine: brothers, sisters, cousins had sex and had families. 2nd: punaluan: advanced family form than above, in this family form cousins. Brothers and sisters did not wed, partners were found outside the home in group marriages. 3rd: pairing: more advanced the punaluan, does away with group marriages, brothers, sisters and cousins did not wed and instead there were exclusive couples. I(cid:374) all th(cid:396)ee fo(cid:396)(cid:373)s (cid:373)othe(cid:396) (cid:396)ight p(cid:396)e(cid:448)ailed, des(cid:272)e(cid:374)t (cid:449)as dete(cid:396)(cid:373)i(cid:374)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:373)othe(cid:396)"s blood line. There was also communistic housekeeping, raising children and housekeeping was a public affair, women were highly regarded as performing a critical task. All three family forms made up of hunter gatherers, until there was a historical change in the mode of production. Proved to be important in the relation of men to women, husbands to wives. Societies went from hunting and gathering to the domestication of animals and farming.
