WOMENST 1A03 Lecture : Women's Studies - Feb.14 "Gender and Globalization"
6 Mar 2012
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Last week: relationships between the state, dominant ideologies and the family: differential effects according to ethnicity, racialization, class and gender. Enduring effects of entwined legacies of colonialism and capitalism on contemporary families, especially first nations families and the families of immigrants. Gender and globalization: examining links between capitalism and colonialism, but also neo-colonialism, globalization and neoliberal ideology. In the neoliberal state wealth trickles down to some and not others" (brodie) contribute to the growing gulf between the rich and the poor. Brodie decidedly gendered : modern state in which the government takes responsibility for its citizens through social institutions. Promotes ideas of universality, unconditionality, equality and neutrality (brodie 88) Political environment nurtured the gains of the 2nd wave feminist movement. Neoliberalism: possible: antagonist to the welfare state: and precisely on this terrain that the government repudiated of the women"s movement centered (brodie 90) Free market of capitalism reigns, supports free trade. Political philosophy put to action through (91-95)
