Questions whether North American biological explanations of gender power differences are held by other cultures
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Kutty (1972)
Explores how Islam leads the Kalpeni islanders to have a materilineal lifestyle. Women's money is given to children after death, father's reverts to matrilineal line after death
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E. Blackwood
Explores how Islam impacts the matrilineal lives of the Minangkabau in South-East Asia where women are empowered as controllers of land and houses
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Leela Dube
Explores how South-East Asian women have an unusual degree of autonomy in comparison to South Asia where women must rely on bargaining power within a patriarchal system
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E. Van Vleet (Performing Kinship)
For the Sulk'atas, all labour exchange follows a gender division of labour. Women work with women whilst men work with men. However, due to social changes some women are rebelling against this system
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Kathleen Gough (1956)
In the Smartha Brahmin, women's assimilation to men means that as wives of dead ancestors they do not have to be named separately and a dead woman could not be incorporated among ancestors whilst her husband was still alive
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Ward Goodenough
Describes marriage as 'a transaction and resulting contract in which a person establishes a continuing claim to the right of sexual access to a woman'
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Claude Levi-Strauss
A woman is "given" to her husband by her brother. Treated as property
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Card 2
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Explores how Islam leads the Kalpeni islanders to have a materilineal lifestyle. Women's money is given to children after death, father's reverts to matrilineal line after death
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Kutty (1972)
Card 3
Front
Explores how Islam impacts the matrilineal lives of the Minangkabau in South-East Asia where women are empowered as controllers of land and houses
Back
Card 4
Front
Explores how South-East Asian women have an unusual degree of autonomy in comparison to South Asia where women must rely on bargaining power within a patriarchal system
Back
Card 5
Front
For the Sulk'atas, all labour exchange follows a gender division of labour. Women work with women whilst men work with men. However, due to social changes some women are rebelling against this system
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