Learning Objectives
- Differentiate between sex, gender, and sexuality, and illustrate the ways in which gender is culturally constructed.
- Analyze the role of ideology in the construction of gender, and give examples of the ways in which female sexuality is controlled and men prove themselves.
- Describe variability in gender roles and sexual behavior.
- Summarize different theories offered to explain the existence of gender hierarchies.
- Compare and contrast the gender relations typical of foraging, horticultural, pastoral, and agricultural societies.
- Assess the changes in our understanding of gender in the past decades, and relate them to changes in family and economy.