GSFS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sexual Assault, Microsoft Powerpoint, Male Gaze
4 Jun 2018
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Lecture 9:
Emotional work- something as social worker or therapist
Listening to clients- mostly women
Also informal labour
Listening to friends- form of labour
Care work:
Unpaid labour
Can be a form of emotional labour
Idea of reproductive labour
Comes from Marxist thinking
Idea of the work it takes to reproduce society
Part of it often is tied into emotional labour and care work as well
Gendered
Done by women
Long citation book:
Bob Smith, Books are Cool, (New York: Penguin, 2016), 33.
Short citation:
Smith, Books are cool, 33
From last class-
Laverne Cox
We are born as who we are and gender is imposed on you
Another thing that came up in discussion was regarding bell hooks and debate about drag
Some see it as liberating some trivalizaing gender experiences
Serano text-
Resistance to norms
Different umbrellas and different norms for the umbrellas
Soe do’t at to see their geder ID as resistae
So she’s usig tras differetl tha others
Serano is almost using trans-ness as metaphor
Using ID as metaphor can be contentious
From authors we looked at-
These are how a lot of theorists fall into if your pro transgender theory or anti
Privilege in the trans-community
People who can pass
Linked to class privilege too
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Comes from African American people that can pass as white
Term picked up to mean being seen as the dominant group
People who are seen as straight for example
Stigma surrounging sex work
Thinking of them as a social, medical problem
Mental problem
Failure as a woman
Quote on slides
Most ties i our ultural iagiatio aout se orkers is that the’re oe hih is ot
true
Gender deviance- being a wrongful woman
Whereas even using sex worker word itself is a term of reclamation
Different models
Both sex workers advocate for decriminalization
Reason why is that part of it is a lack of trust in government to set up good laws that would be
beneficial for sex workers
Abolition- make it illegal- case in most cases
Causes a lot of har eause the do’t hae ork- a’t aess health care, no protection
Swedish model that harper pushed for-
Abolishion model but instead of punishing the worker they punish the client
This makes clients less comfortable to meet and pay so instead more of a rush
Hard to find safe place to meet
Even though itetio oes fro a good plae, does’t take ito aout hat se orkers
want and need
Important: listening to sex workers need instead of assuming
How to protect workers
How organizations like the UN try to deal with sex work
Sex trafficking is people being forced to have sex against their will
Different than people consenting to do this
So difference is choice
Sex trafficking and sex workers get muddied up so with legislation trying to shut down the
websites- intention is good but because sex work is illegal then sex workers have no more sex
place to meet clients
Language is important when speaking about sex work
The political efficacy as well as the problems arising from disagreement in terminology
Term sex work as opposed to prostitution
Part of the label of sex worker- term comes from 1978
Video
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Document Summary
Emotional work- something as social worker or therapist. Idea of the work it takes to reproduce society. Part of it often is tied into emotional labour and care work as well. Bob smith, books are cool, (new york: penguin, 2016), 33. We are born as who we are and gender is imposed on you. Another thing that came up in discussion was regarding bell hooks and debate about drag. Some see it as liberating some trivalizaing gender experiences. Different umbrellas and different norms for the umbrellas. So(cid:373)e do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to see their ge(cid:374)der id as resista(cid:374)(cid:272)e. These are how a lot of theorists fall into if your pro transgender theory or anti. Comes from african american people that can pass as white. Term picked up to mean being seen as the dominant group. People who are seen as straight for example. Thinking of them as a social, medical problem.
