Author Question: Among the San prior to the 1960s, women contributed as much as 80 of the daily food intake. This ... (Read 73 times)

ericka1 · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

Among the San prior to the 1960s, women contributed as much as 80 of the daily food intake. This type of society has been labeled:

a. informal power balance.
b. matriarchal.
c. gender stratified.
d. gender egalitarian.

Question 2

Each of the following are arguments made by Sherry Ortner to explain what she perceived as the universal subordination of women except:

a. women are more closely associated with nature than men because of their bodies and reproductive roles.
b. women became subordinated following colonization, and this is the result of a womans place in a state society.
c. women are more closely related with the domestic sphere and not with relations outside the family.
d. women have a natural bond with their children, and this places them more closely in the domain of nature.