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SOSC 200Y Gender and Society

SOSC 200Y Gender and Society. Lecture 10: Women and Marriage. Life courses. Describe the process from one stage to another (childhood, adolescence, adulthood, middle age, old age) Conceptions of these stages vary between societies. E.g. Adulthood (marriage, parenthood)

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SOSC 200Y Gender and Society

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  1. SOSC 200Y Gender and Society Lecture 10: Women and Marriage

  2. Life courses • Describe the process from one stage to another (childhood, adolescence, adulthood, middle age, old age) • Conceptions of these stages vary between societies. • E.g. Adulthood (marriage, parenthood) • The normative timing and sequence of the stages is socially constructed. L10: 11.10.06

  3. Average ages of first marriage (legal age) Girls are universally expected to marry younger than boys, why? L10: 11.10.06

  4. Importance of Marriage • A common definition of entering adulthood • For boys: setting up their own families • For girls: leaving their parents’ families • An institution through which people join their lives emotionally and economically together. • A prerequisite for sexual intercourse and for starting a family • Produce children (next-generations) and rearing them L10: 11.10.06

  5. Importance of Marriage • It brings together families of different surnames • It continues the family line of the paternal clan (extending the family to succeeding generations) • The change of surname (belong to the husband’s family) • The importance of having a son (to keep the surname, symbol of the family line) L10: 11.10.06

  6. Role of female in marriage • Value of a ‘daughter’, a ‘bride’, a ‘wife’ and a ‘mother’ • Relations between the virginity and the bride price (the importance of keeping the daughters ‘pure’) • The definition of being a qualified wife (young: able to bear child, having a son) • The punishment of adultery • The value of a female (in the marriage market) L10: 11.10.06

  7. Wedding • Ceremony at church • Bridal gown • Bride's garter • The bouquet L10: 11.10.06

  8. Rights and Obligations of Marriage • The Reasons for Divorce (in traditional Chinese Societies) • her failure to obey and serve her parents-in-law • her failure to bear a son • her lasciviousness (being too interested in sex) • her jealousy (this includes objecting to her husband taking an additional wife or concubine) • her contraction of a vile disease • her garrulousness (talking too much) • her thieving L10: 11.10.06

  9. When couldn’t he divorce her? • if his wife had no family to return to • when she had gone through the official three year mourning period for one of both of her parents-in-law • when she had married him as a poor man and he had now become rich • if she had given birth within the past year L10: 11.10.06

  10. Some News Headings • 女多男少 2033年 4：3 • 香港男女比例失調：30年後4女爭3男 • 男女比例失衡10女爭8男 港女三十難覓男友 • 卅年後男士更矜貴 男女比例7：10 女性或需北上搵伴 L10: 11.10.06

  11. 某討論區社論：以港股論港女 以投資角度而言，港女依家係「有價冇市」，再加上「國企」競爭，投資者 (港男) 於資訊越來越透明下，已懂得去分辦優質股。一些空殼公司 (冇人要既港女) 又不肯將自己個價位 set discount，隨時沒資金 汲納，導致週轉不良， 最後面臨清盤危機。 L10: 11.10.06

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