WGSS 1105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Gender Binary, Family Wage, Separate Spheres
29 Jan 2017
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Chapter 9 is about evaluating change in different institutions (190) Shift from hunter-gatherer to agrarian societies tend to bring shift to both private property and patriarchy (190) Institutional demands and opportunities continually shape and reshape lives (192) Commodification: the making of something into a commodity (a thing that can be bought and sold) (193) Gendered love / sex binary- a projection of the gender binary onto the ideas of love and sex, such that women are believed to be motivated by love and men by sex (193) Sexual double standard- different rules for the sexual behavior of men and women (194) Good girl / bad girl dichotomy idea that women who behave themselves sexually are (cid:449)orth(cid:455) of respe(cid:272)t a(cid:374)d (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:449)ho do(cid:374)"t are (cid:374)ot (cid:894)(cid:1005)9(cid:1008)) Dating shifted the balance of power and moved courtship out of the home (196) Treating- pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)e (cid:449)here a (cid:373)a(cid:374) fu(cid:374)ds a (cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s (cid:374)ight o(cid:374) the to(cid:449)(cid:374) (cid:894)(cid:1005)9(cid:1010)(cid:895)
