Question 1

Describe three themes or features that are common to systems of gender separation. Give examples.

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Question 2

Wok Meri is an excellent example of how women have manipulated changes in the economic climate to their advantage. Discuss this system, commenting on its symbolic elements and the importance of blood relatives and fictive kinship.

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Question 3

How do we as products of the Western world view women in the Middle East through our own veils? Discuss why the literature on these women is particularly problematic.

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Question 4

When systems of gender separation change (and they do), what directions do they take? What comes after a "civil war" between men and women?

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Question 5

All three case studies in this chapter demonstrate that deep ideological and material justifications underlie and enforce rigid gender separation systems. However different U.S. society may be from these cultures, we still perpetuate certain cultural beliefs that encourage separation between women and men. What are some of our gender separatist beliefs?

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Question 6

In cults of manhood in places like New Guinea, females may make babies, but males believe that only they can make male children grow up to be men. What does this tell us about parenting in cultures with strong separation between males and females?

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Quiz 7: A Two-Bodied World

Describe three themes or features that are common to systems of gender separation. Give examples.

Wok Meri is an excellent example of how women have manipulated changes in the economic climate to their advantage. Discuss this system, commenting on its symbolic elements and the importance of blood relatives and fictive kinship.

How do we as products of the Western world view women in the Middle East through our own veils? Discuss why the literature on these women is particularly problematic.

When systems of gender separation change (and they do), what directions do they take? What comes after a "civil war" between men and women?

In cults of manhood in places like New Guinea, females may make babies, but males believe that only they can make male children grow up to be men. What does this tell us about parenting in cultures with strong separation between males and females?