Across
- 2. the notion that true womanhood centers on domestic responsibility and child-rearing
- 6. a woman having several husbands
- 7. people have more than one partner at a time
- 9. a man having several wives
- 10. kin networks that extend outside or beyond the nuclear family
- 11. women’s responsibility for housework and child care – everything from cooking to doing laundry, bathing children, reading bedtime stories, and sewing Halloween costumes
- 12. marriage to someone outside ones’ social group
Down
- 1. consists of a mother, father and their children
- 3. a person partners with only one other person
- 4. living together in an intimate relationship without formal legal or religious sanctioning
- 5. legal or normative sanctions against marrying outside one’s own race, class, or other social group; marriage from within.
- 8. the technical term for interracial marriage, literally meaning “a mixing of kinds”; it is politically and historically charged – sociologists typically use exogamy or outmarriage as neutral terms