ANT 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Victorian Era, Grammatical Gender, Gender Role

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural and Archaeology
• Course: ANT 260
• Professor: Katheryn Twiss

Document Summary

Gender eating: gender and body shape (weight issues) Gender role is the culturally prescribed behavior associated with men and women. Gender ideology is the culturally prescribed values assigned to the task and status of men and women. Not specifically female, but previously was highly for women. Ideal women used to be flowerish, thin and delicate. In the victorian era a woman is not sex-based, shocked by anything a man would want to do with them. An interest in food is correlated with an interest in sex: meat-eati(cid:374)g (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:449)ere a(cid:374)(cid:374)ou(cid:374)(cid:272)i(cid:374)g the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es to the (cid:449)orld as (cid:862)hot-(cid:271)looded(cid:863) If you want to be a good girl meat should not appeal to you or your delicate little system. Upper class women should be delicate and decorative, not fit for hard work: should be distance from indelicacies including bodily things that come from eating and hard work.