AN N EA 15 Chapter wk 1: AN N EA 15 Chapter wk : wk1 reading- nature vs nurture
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Nature vs nurture on down so long reading: genesis different from maintenance; compares racial & gender inequality. Genesis in us: chattel slavery brought in to work as cheap labor & extensive labor. Removed from cultural foundation, religious source, destabilizes social system. Jackson: origin of racism is different from maintenance of it: further from slavery, less racist system of power can be maintained; things can be rebuilt. Assuming origin of sexual inequality is biology: birth-giving. Same for all pregnant women; didn"t just happen a dozen times in history. So origin of inequality happens every time a woman"s pregnant. So has to be some other means than being away from it to transcend it. So something else needed to change other than biology: men"s advantages quietly & undramatically self-reproducing . Biological differences as origin: hormonal differences, emotionality, sensitive to others" emotion, less aggressive, small nuclear group-focused. Pregnant/women with kids can be dramatically vulnerable & unequal: male dominance self-replicated thru private property .
