Can A Gay Man Be A Housewife Summary
Week 4 Day 1 Domestic Worlds and Public Worlds Readings: GCC Part III CR Berkowitz, Can a Gay Man Be a Housewife? First Response Paper Due Wednesday February 2
Summary of Previous Week
If we are looking to the primate for a record of Hunter and Gatherer behaviors then we must be very careful indeed not to anthropomorphize characteristics in either direction.
This is an oversimplification but it is the essence.
As I said, the research changes weekly, when new fossil evidence, genomics or simply a paradigmatic shift in the understanding of gender in prehistory emerges theories move to accommodate new information.
Public Private and
Sexual Division of Labor and Gender Stratification
Opposition of public to private …show more content…
Servants define the wants
“Nothing but chips at Christmas”
Men can cook but bacon-y things- Who grills?
Cooking not directed by the woman but a series of controls
Occasions reflect value of home
Limit on domestic work
Townsend
Fatherhood
Paradox men say they want to be better fathers but don’t act that way
Child support
Currently 35 Billion due.
He shows:
Women “driving force behind men’s decisions to have children
This varies widely based on class and culture
In Japan, many women calculate the cost of children before having them.
Here, many are offended by such a concept.
A structural division of labor places men in the workplace And when women enter the market there is “culture work” (Erving Goffman)
Parenting gendered with women default parent Men=fun dads and enforcers
Two spheres interpenetrate
All from same high school
Father child not thought of independent of husband wife
Christmas card-its your baby
For men having children is the reproduction of fatherhood- a patrilineal process
Men assume conception can be controlled
Nuclear family the ideal but if altered- cultural work is required
Who arranges interactions with …show more content…
“For the most part, working-class women have not been afforded the protection—or suffered the imprisonment—of seclusion within the private domain to the same extent as elite and middle-class women”
When women enter the market-men in markets lose public unself-consciousness
emphasizes the opportunities for homosociality that the produce market provides.
IN a radical inversion of this gender paradigm, domestic life with husbands, fathers and brothers appears in market women’s testimonies as an ominously patriarchal territory controlled and dominated—often violently—by men.
THIS IS KEY
When women penetrate markets or occupations previously denied them men often respond violently or with genuine fear.
The world of the plaza exists to provide services for the domestic sphere.
The metaphor of “eating junk food” describes the pernicious penetration of capitalist markets into the women’s sphere. In that masculinist capitalist incursions into home made food displaces women form a traditional stronghold of their work.
Industrialization of the home erases the line between work and
Summary of Previous Week
If we are looking to the primate for a record of Hunter and Gatherer behaviors then we must be very careful indeed not to anthropomorphize characteristics in either direction.
This is an oversimplification but it is the essence.
As I said, the research changes weekly, when new fossil evidence, genomics or simply a paradigmatic shift in the understanding of gender in prehistory emerges theories move to accommodate new information.
Public Private and
Sexual Division of Labor and Gender Stratification
Opposition of public to private …show more content…
Servants define the wants
“Nothing but chips at Christmas”
Men can cook but bacon-y things- Who grills?
Cooking not directed by the woman but a series of controls
Occasions reflect value of home
Limit on domestic work
Townsend
Fatherhood
Paradox men say they want to be better fathers but don’t act that way
Child support
Currently 35 Billion due.
He shows:
Women “driving force behind men’s decisions to have children
This varies widely based on class and culture
In Japan, many women calculate the cost of children before having them.
Here, many are offended by such a concept.
A structural division of labor places men in the workplace And when women enter the market there is “culture work” (Erving Goffman)
Parenting gendered with women default parent Men=fun dads and enforcers
Two spheres interpenetrate
All from same high school
Father child not thought of independent of husband wife
Christmas card-its your baby
For men having children is the reproduction of fatherhood- a patrilineal process
Men assume conception can be controlled
Nuclear family the ideal but if altered- cultural work is required
Who arranges interactions with …show more content…
“For the most part, working-class women have not been afforded the protection—or suffered the imprisonment—of seclusion within the private domain to the same extent as elite and middle-class women”
When women enter the market-men in markets lose public unself-consciousness
emphasizes the opportunities for homosociality that the produce market provides.
IN a radical inversion of this gender paradigm, domestic life with husbands, fathers and brothers appears in market women’s testimonies as an ominously patriarchal territory controlled and dominated—often violently—by men.
THIS IS KEY
When women penetrate markets or occupations previously denied them men often respond violently or with genuine fear.
The world of the plaza exists to provide services for the domestic sphere.
The metaphor of “eating junk food” describes the pernicious penetration of capitalist markets into the women’s sphere. In that masculinist capitalist incursions into home made food displaces women form a traditional stronghold of their work.
Industrialization of the home erases the line between work and