Quiz 3 Study Guide

Dr. Money and the Boy with No Penis Notes

1.     Nature vs. Nurture

2.     Theory of Gender Neutrality

3.     Gender binary

4.     Gender dysphoria

5.     Gender Socialization

6.     Gender identity

Fausto-Sterling Notes

1.     Intersex/Transsexual

2.     Gender reassignment

3.     Kinsey Scale

4.     Sex vs. Gender

5.     Life phase homosexuality

6.     Homosexual acts. Vs. homosexual identity

7.     Cultural construction of homosexuality

Freud Notes

1.     Oedipal complex

2.     Electra Complex

3.     Id/Ego/Superego

Nunez Lecture notes Ortner 10/18/12:

I.       Background on feminism and anthropology:

A.               Feminism 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd wave: Suffragists, Friedan, Bridge

C.               Anthropology (along with history and English) was one of the first disciplines to accept feminist scholarship.

D.              Anthropologists had been paying attention to gender since its inception because gender is an organizing principle of society.

E.               They analyzed things such as religion, social institutions, marriage practices, law and governance. Because all of these structures are organized according to gender, a lot of ethnographic data existed on women.

II.     Feminist Anthropology

A.    When feminist scholars entered universities en masse in the 60s and 70s, they turned to ethnographic data to understand questions of women’s social positions. An initial question was:

1.               Is there such a thing as matriarchy? Has there ever been one?

2.               Is the subordination of women universal or just widespread? This was a debate in feminist circles; Ortner believes it is universal.

3.               In every culture there is a gendered division of labor.

a.    Women take care of the home and children

b.    Have a variety of other tasks, depending on culture

4.               Social construction: in every culture, women are subordinate, but the way in which this manifests differs from culture to culture.

Key terms: universalism, particularism, binaries, structural anthro, purity/ pollution, sacred/profane, nature/culture,  socialization of children, intermediate, raw and cooked, prestige, egalitarian, gendered division of labor, sexual organization of society, domestic/public, cult of masculinity, polarized symbolism-witch vs. goddess.

Sacred/profane: onjesta/pragata
Structure/agency
Weapons of the Weak-James Scott

Subversion
Resistance
A room of one's own-Wolfe

Negative agency

Productive/reproductive labor

Sexual division of labor

Bridewealth/dowry (184)