AN341 Lecture Notes - Michelle Rosaldo, Double Burden, Patrilineality
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Question: what factors contribute to gender equality (or inequality) within households and families? (reading the vantinai and the tuareg) Meyer forts: domestic and jural dichotomy demoted the status of the domestic to everyday familial relations. The public contained the legal structures of descent groups, legal roles, social order ad exchanges. Michelle rosaldo: women"s association with domestic relegated them to subordinate roles. The domestic and public are inextricably connected. Spatial and functional divisions in public: women and men are divided in the public by how they even go out men go out more at night where women go out more during the day. Kinship and marriage: women as links between descent groups and households, role in marriage arrangements, marriage has ramifications outside the household. Production and reproduction: (biological and social: reproduction in the household is both social and biological , related via labour (power or state) Have more children therefore have more labour.
