ANT343H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intentionality, Louis Althusser, Identity Politics
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Group discussion: both ortner and rubin offer an account of women"s subordination across time/space. How do their accounts overlap and differ: rubin influenced by marxism and materialistic perspective of subordination; writing in early 70s after 60s era marxism. Marxism language of liberation at that time. Exchange of women not the main cause of women"s subordination; about much more than subordinating them (wealth, kinship, politics, law, etc. ) Freudian psychoanalytic theory to see the individual, how things are perpetuated at individual level; post-marxist lens views things as relationship between and within groups: both ortner and rubin bring certain assumptions to their pieces. With regards to other readings, what kind of critiques could we make of. Butler: sex gender desire gender, which will determine sexuality, e. g. , penis male heterosexual desire. Regulatory : performativity, regulates the social world and relationship and identities of people, through repeated actions you transform the subject ; sediments or congeals the transformation, philosophy of language, j. l.
