Family and Sex Roles in the Past

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Family and Sex Roles in the Past

• Introduction

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Definitions

• 1. Family two or more people related by blood,
  marriage or adoption.
• 2. Household1 or more people living in a housing
  unit.
• In the West family household, coresidential
  primary descent group

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Issues

• 1. Marriage
• 2. Education of young
• 3. Care of dependents
• 4. Lineage, or devolution of property, values,
  name, memory
• 5. Management of sexuality
• 6. Welfare of individuals

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Related institutions

• 1. Church
• 2. State
• 3. Peer groups
• 4. Voluntary organizations
• 5. Economic organizations - firms, corporations,
  etc.

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Social Power, based upon....

• 1. Patriarchy
• 2. Age
• 3. Social class
• 4. Conquest

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Sex roles

• 1. The study of masculinity and femininity
• 2. Sexual practices
• 3. Gendering of the world hence examine law,
  religious texts, everyday life for clues to
  gender messages embedded in discussions of other
  subjects. We start with 2 examples, ancient legal
  codes and creation stories.

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Summing Up Themes

• 1. The creation of patriarchy
• 2. The varieties of family forms in different
  societies (selectively analyzed)
• 3. The material progress of human society longer
  lives, more amenities, inventions that change
  family life e.g., birth control.
• 4. The end of patriarchy?
• 5. Family and sex roles and history of
  presidents, kings, war and empires