SOAN 2400 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Essent, Medicalization, Weddings In India

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2400
• Professor: D Rose

Document Summary

Ta hours will be posted next week (cid:498)dueling dualism(cid:499) (cid:498))ntersex narratives(cid:499) (cid:498)the egg and the sperm(cid:499) Today"s lecture slides should be posted on saturday. Use gender is coming in later, early (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:889)(cid:882)"s (cid:523)when women come into the discipline much more strongly going to graduate school, becoming professors) More women in graduate careers, more feminists attracted to anthropologists. Male tennis player said no women could beat him and billie jean did **biology is. Dueling dualisms destiny attitude **if this was true than it"s fixed. Is the cross cultural comparison fixed anthro. Was attractive to feminist scholars for that reason they could go explore gender systems, some societies have 3, 4, sometimes 5 or 6 gender systems independent on whether they had a penis or a vagina. Compared the gender relations of 4 foraging peoples. If not all societies have a female lower than male than it"s not biologically. Foraging tend to be egalitarian, they don"t produce they hunt and gather, sharing.