Hist 351 - Midterm

Sex/Sexuality

• Sexual practice; when is it allowed? who is allowed, when is it legal?

Sex

• Can refer to biology; hormones, chromosomes, intersex, and transgender individuals

Gender

• The concept of gender changes over time

• Analysis of history; what is masculine and what is feminine,

Gender System

• How gender organizes power in a society → Labor, economics, politics, diplomatic inheritance powers

Contribution History

• Early years of women’s history before gender systems

• What did women do, not gender as a whole system

Social Construction Theory

• How identities get formed and changed based on social environments

• Change over time based on specific factors

Biological Essentialist

• Assertion that things does not change over time

Masculinity/Femininity

• Based on Mores, tradition, legal or familial rules, legal system, social system

• Gender as a performance

Matrilocal/ Patrilocal

• Who owned the house, the property?

• Where you live when you get married

Matrilocal

• Based on the wife’s parents or family

• Does not mean that the women is the most important person → the land might go to the mothers brothers

Patrilocal

Based on the husband’s parents or family

Matrilineal

• How names and status descents

• Based on the women → but doesnt mean that she is the most important, might go through the women’s line via a male relative

Patrilineal

• Name and status descents through the husbands family

Gender Frontiers

Subsistence Economy

Matrilocal Clan

Matrilineal Line

Productive Labor

Reproductive Labor

Manly Hearted Woman

Gender Frontier