WOMENST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Liberal Democracy, Family Values, Family Constellations
24 Aug 2016
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All states engage to a certain degree in establishing maintaining, and policing the divide between the public and the private spheres. Family values obscenity and prostitution laws maternity/paternity leaves pensions and taxes. The state (in western liberal democracies) is the main organizer of power relations of gender (pettman) Easy to note distinctions, once you go looking for them. Laws that govern voting, holding property, speaking in court. Tax and pension regulations that enforce particularly family constellations. Payment differentials and discriminatory policies in employment tolerated. Men"s status as full citizens relies, historically, on their ability to control and represent a house full of dependents (=women, children, and slaves) More difficult to suss out; the representational role women fulfill in articulating the state"s essence and its cultural mission . Conveyors of culture, customs, songs, religion, ethics, cuisine, and language women"s domestic role is crucial to the nation"s self- understanding therefore, isn"t private at all. Anti-islamism political and cultural sentiment in france, holland,
