The Cultural Consequences of Female Contribution to Subsistence

Schlegel, Alice; Barry, Herbert

doi:10.1525/aa.1986.88.1.02a00110

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“…Schlegel and Barry (1986) compared values in 185 non-industrial societies. They found that in societies in which women made substantial contributions to the food-based economy, people were more tolerant of premarital sexual permissiveness-for both boys and girls.…”

Section: Social Psychological (Biopsychosocial) Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sexual Motives: Cultural, Evolutionary, and Social Psychological Perspectives

Hatfield

Luckhurst

Rapson

2010

Sexuality & Culture

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Recently, scholars from a variety of disciplines have begun to investigate passionate love, sexual desire, and sexual behavior. Specifically, they have started to ask such questions as: ''Why do young men and women engage in sexual liaisons?'' ''Why do they avoid such encounters?'' Unfortunately, in attempting to answer such questions, scholars have generally focused on surveys and experiments within their own disciplines and have accorded scant attention to the discoveries of other disciplines. In this paper, we will begin by discussing three theoretical perspectives that have had the most to say about why young people seek out (or avoid) sex-cultural psychology, evolutionary psychology, and social psychology (where theorists often take a biopsychosocial approach). Then, we will (1) describe the many scales that have been used to assess sexual motives, and (2) review the multidisciplinary data which has been assembled in an attempt to answer the questions as to why people seek out (or avoid) sexual activity. Unfortunately, almost all this research was conducted by Western researchers, investigating the attitudes and behavior of young American men and women, who were heterosexual. (Alas, the wider-ranging data one would wish to consider is as yet only rarely available.) Through this multidisciplinary synthesis, we hope to demonstrate the impact of culture, social experience, and biological imperatives in shaping young men's and women's motives for engaging in sexual encounters and provide a sort of ''encyclopedia'' of sexual motives measures and research for future scholars.

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Section: Social Psychological (Biopsychosocial) Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sexual Motives: Cultural, Evolutionary, and Social Psychological Perspectives

Hatfield

Luckhurst

Rapson

2010

Sexuality & Culture

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“…Schlegel & Barry (11,113) find further relationships between female subsistence contributions and the value placed on girls, premarital permissiveness, and other variables.…”

Section: Intensity Of Production and The Division Of Labormentioning

confidence: 92%

Cross-Cultural Surveys Today

Burton¹

1987

Annual Review of Anthropology

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“…As noted above, however, our patriarchy result should be corroborated with larger samples, phylogenetic comparative methods, and perhaps refined data on patriarchy. Variation in sex differences in sports participation also might be illuminated with more refined measures of female power, such as control of resources Barry, 1986;Yanca & Low, 2004) or quantitative estimates of the number of kin and female allies present (Hill et al, 2011).…”

Section: Variation Across Societiesmentioning

confidence: 99%