WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Androcentrism, Flexner Report, Menopause

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

Document Summary

Key terms: precarious labour, neo liberalism, globalizaion, economic globalizaion, cultural globalizaion, feminizaion of migraion, sex tourism, sex traicking. Globalizaion and women: costs and beneits: economic globalizaion has provided work opportuniies for women workers, beneits: when women earn a wager they gain: independence, some security, ability to save for future (educaion, marriage, children) Sex work as part of globalizaion: growth of sex tourism: a form of economic globalizaion in which millions of dollars are brought into a naion. Beneits poor naions economically: sex tourists come from: canada, france, germany, japan and exploit girls and women (primarily) in: Cambodia, cuba, dr, india, thailand (large market): sex work is work; form of labour. February 24, 2015: focus: inding vulnerable girls and women, younger girls and children may be either forced into prosituion or sold into it. Children cannot give consent: decepion: parents may be told their girl-child will be: a maid, waitress, labourer. Cannot be separated from any other component of equality.