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Social Evolutionary approach (Herbert Spencer):
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Promiscuity& matrilineal descent evolved into monogamy & bilineal descent
•Women doing childcare & men working outside of home is best for survival of species. |
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Materialist Approach (Marx and Engels):
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•Move from communal property to private property decreased women’s status–“The world-historical defeat of the female sex.”
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Psychological Approach (Freud and N. Chodorow)
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•Women naturally passive and dependent. Differences in male/female personality types stem from fact that women/mothers do most of childcare/socializing, Social Learning Theory-cultural learning shapes female & male personality types
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Structuralist Approach (Levi-Strauss & Sherry Ortner):
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Ideas people have about gender more important than material aspects of life for shaping gender relations.
Examines myth, language and symbols |
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Discourse-Oriented Approach (Michelle Foucault):
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Discourse-systems of knowledge, supported by institutions and practices that create a picture of what is true and what is not
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