ANTH 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fred Flintstone, Caveman, Determinism

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1101
• Professor: Hersh Carie

Document Summary

Gender vs sex: sex is biological, while gender is cultural, gender: cultural rights and tasks assigned to one sex or the other, gender is fundamental form of stratification in most human cultures, gender differences and relation to power. Feminist anthropology of the 1970s: male dominance is not universal, hunting can be done by women, women and children provide most of nutrition, women should be dominant bread winner . Biological determinism: biological sex determines who you are, your place in society, personality. Cave man image of sexual stratification: fred flintstone, women are doing the housework and tending to the men while fred and barney are cooking the meat, man the hunter, woman the gatherer. In reality, society was egalitarian because women gathered more food than was hunted. Oppression: exercise of authority of power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. Traditional chinese foot binding: chinese women took painful measures to make their feet smaller because large feet were considered ugly.