SOSA 3285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gender Binary, Deconstruction, Autonomous Agent

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 3285
• Professor: Dr.Kelley Anne Malinen

Document Summary

Feminist frameworks: responses to failures to address women"s experiences (law-society, feminism: a body of knowledge and a political movement aimed at understanding and alleviating gender based inequality. Conservatism (functionalism: gender based inequality, natural: men and women have essential differences rooted in biology, functional: plays a functional role for society, feminism: disruptive; dysfunctional. Conservative feminism (video is it possible or are they not compatible?) 1: broad based social change and structural analysis. #2 liberal: equal opportunities, valuing subject as an autonomous agent. #3 socialist: workers , unions class consciousness. #4 socialist: sex work and the interests of capitalism. 1. family-oriented: property values (what is functional for society interests of the dominant class) #6 liberal: using language of autonomous choice-making subject who can choose to participate in sex work or not. Summary: for a functionalist like durkheim, the key issue was the problem of order. For weber it was the desire to explain the unique features of western capitalist societies.