WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Gynocentrism, Social Reproduction, Labour Power

• School: Brock University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1F90
• Professor: Jenny Janke

Document Summary

Key concepts: discourse, praxis, meritocracy, systemic oppression, producion for exchange, producion for use, patriarchal capitalism, feminizaion of poverty, patriarchy, consciousness raising (cr, rape culture. 2: discourse: historically variable ways of specifying knowledge that links concepts into ideas we write, speak, think and act within discourses. Example: marxist theory examines capitalism -- the economic mode of producion in the west and hierarchy, oppression and privilege. Soluions may be far reaching, poliically/economically focused, or immediate and instantly accessible. 2: must analyze systemic oppression, yet be atenive to individual speciiciies. Small l liberals believe in the human capacity to reason and to be raional. Believed to be the inherent rights of men. Examples of 18th and 19th century liberal feminists: mary wollstonecrat, harriet taylor mill and john stuart mill: Th century feminism: basic tenets: men and women are essenially the same but it has been socializaion and sex roles which have divided the two sexes.