SOCIOL 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Second-Wave Feminism, Betty Friedan, Mary Wollstonecraft

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1Z03
• Professor: Lina Samuel

Document Summary

Shaping peoples experiences: gramsci, two forms of political control, domination: masks social inequality. Hierarchy (military, police: hegemony: consent of the masses. First wave feminist: mary wollstonecraft: didn"t challenge domestic work (teach women to read to be a better mother) Bell hooks: one voice for women isn"t enough. For africana merican women the house was viewed as a safe place away from racism: black women ignored. Foucault looks at how knowlegde and power work together: speaks to poewr as being held as a web, its multidirectional, everyone has some soft of power, criticize marx for over emphasizing class. Influential academic traiditon: specific kinds ofknowledge about spcific people and civilizations, how did india enter the consciousness of britain, orientalism defined 3 distinct ways: Style of thought (based upon distinction between oxidant and orient) (imaginative) Corporate institution of dealing with the orient (had the power to produce what the orient needs) (institutional)