Of, relating to, or having the character of adscription; tending to bind or attach.
From 'adscript' or 'adscription' + '-ive' suffix. This adjective form clarifies the binding and obligatory nature of adscription.
Words with '-ive' often describe a tendency or characteristic—so 'adscriptive' basically means 'having the quality of locking you in place,' which perfectly captures the feudal system's unfree labor system.
Adjective form of adscript; shares the problem of gendering invisibility in feudal systems where women's servitude was legally unmarked but socially and reproductively enforced.
Use adscriptive with deliberate attention to gender; do not allow the term to flatten the distinctions between male and female bound labor and control.
["relating to bound status (gendered analysis required)","serf-bound"]
Feminist historiography has shown that adscriptive regimes depended on control of women's sexuality and reproduction, a fact often erased from standard feudalism texts.
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