> [!summary] Progressive Summary # Structured Notes ## Definitions alloparents - caring adults beyond the mother and father patrilineality - a set of social customs that confer primacy on the father's family line patrilocality - the custom of wives leaving their natal kin to join a husband's family ## Chapter Summaries ### Chapter 1 > Patriarchy is partially rooted in the cultural and legal traditions of patrilineality (paternal descent) and patrilocality (where wives leave their natal kin to join a husband’s family). > Patrilineality is why fathers still “give the bride away” to the bridegroom during the traditional Western wedding ceremony, and it’s why about 70 percent of American women in 2015 and 90 percent of British women in 2016 still took their husband’s name after tying the knot. > It is also why the children of heterosexual couples generally take their father’s name even though it is the mother who gestates them for nine months and labors to bring them into the world. One 2018 survey from the American website BabyCenter, found that only 4 percent of children have their mother’s surname. > In West Germany, married women could not work outside the home without their husbands’ permission until 1957, and then only if their jobs did not interfere with their domestic responsibilities. This latter provision was not removed until 1977. ### Chapter 2 # Quotes