Rothenberg,+Part+4+Patriarchy+&+Domination

Type your notes from Rothenberg, P. (2006). Beyond Borders: Thinking critically about global issues. Worth Publishers.


 * Part 4, Chapters 1 - 4 here. Make sure you articulate a theme or thesis statement that best describes the chapter. Then, include notes or separate facts from the chapter that back up your thesis statement.**


 * A. Chapter 1 - The Patriarchal Family by Gerda Lerner**

The notion of the male dominance has been embedded into the minds of women and causes future generations to be subordinate to the males in their lives. This article follows the development of this idea through history and multiple cultures. It is told that the men hold the power while women take on the duties of the household but are below their male head of households. The role of the woman transends the cultural barrier and as such leads to cultures where polygomy and monogomy are practiced but the role of the woman below the man is still present. Woman only shared their class privileges if they were thought to be under "the protection" of the man. The whole paternalism is a contract that is unwritten that says woman have to perform sexual services and do domestic services that her husband tells her to do for the exchange of protection and economic support.


 * B. Chapter 2 - The Foundation of Gender Identity: Garaba, Relational Connectivity and Patriarchy by Cheryl A. Rubenberg**

This chapter talked about how many women around the world are in abusive marriages, but can't speak out against their husband, because it would be bad for his family and her family since the marraige linked the two families together. Rubenberg discribed it as "Marriage. Work. Violence. Silence." These women are suffering, but they must suffer in silence to protect themselves from the wrath of family members.


 * C. Chapter 3 - Gender, Race and Class in Silicon Valley by Karen J. Hossfiel**d

Chapter three talks about the ideology within the role of women, meaning the women were influenced to be the traditional house wife and mother. They were not allowed to work, or collect any wages that exceed the amout of the husbands income. The traditional womens role was to just mainly care for the family including the children and the chores within the home. Woman were interviewed from within different races, but in the end all their roles or ideology within women weall either all the same or very similar.


 * This occurs in spite of the fact that or more likely because the women are engaged in roles that are traditionally defined as non-feminine: factory work and wage earning.
 * Women may feel unwomanly at work because they are away from their home and family, which conflicts with the ideology that they should be at home.
 * They do not want to earn less than they currently do; rather they want their menfolk to earn more.


 * D. Chapter 4 - Daughters and generals in the Politics of the Globalized Sneaker by Cynthia Enloe**

Chapter four is about digging deeper into the lives of Asian women in shoe factories, and how they came to work in factories. Enloe talks about how at the end of the Cold War America wanted to expand into new markets, opening shoe factories in countries over seas such as Asia. Enloe also explains how Nike pushed their agenda on South Korea to "exert pressure on those women to so that their constructions of femininity would be such that would make their labour cheap." Globalization of the sneaker created "daughterly patriotism," and created new ideas of a respectable, marriageable woman in South Korea. This belief that the women were being patriotic made it easier for Sneaker companies to pay them less because they believed more in their patriotism than the idea that they were actually cheap labour.

Women in South Korea were encouraged, by the government, to see themselves as patriots, and to migrate to another city to help forgo industrializing South Korea. Because wage prices have been lowered, factory locations have switched to other countries. First the factories were switched to South Korea, because women in South Korea have patriotism, so it made them believe that it was good to have a job. Facts A third of all athletic shoes come from China. Reebok had a contract with the University of Wisconsin that said that it was illegal to take off the Reebok logo or tried to paint it in a different color.

This chapter talks about violence against women and how it can happen at any age. Woman can be subjected to violence from pre-birth all the way to when they are elderyly. Abuse can happen any where, it can happen at home, in an intimate relationship, in police custody, in the work place, in their community, during war, and even right after they are born. It also points out the lack of right that woman have against their attacker when in cultures where virginity is linked to a family's honor, the victum is often forced into marriage with their attacker.
 * E. Chapter 5: Violence Against Woman by World Health Organization**