ACS 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Double Consciousness, Elton Mayo

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 400
• Professor: Chris Powell

Document Summary

Contradiction: the increase in industrial productivity and the immiseration of the working class. From other human beings, seen as competitors. Oppression of women in the working world. Women assigned the worst, most degrading tasks. Women denied assistive measures given to men. The oppression of a white middle-class american women by her nominally well-meaning husband as she suffers from depression. Wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s a(cid:396)tifi(cid:272)ially (cid:373)ai(cid:374)tai(cid:374)ed e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) depe(cid:374)de(cid:374)(cid:272)e o(cid:374) (cid:373)e(cid:374) Marriage does not function as a business partnership. Wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:449)o(cid:396)k is (cid:374)ot e(cid:395)ui(cid:448)ale(cid:374)t to paid la(cid:271)o(cid:396) Women are denied the opportunity to be independent. Motherhood is an insufficient justification for this. W. e. b dubois (1868-1963) (cid:862)of ou(cid:396) pi(cid:396)itual t(cid:396)i(cid:448)i(cid:374)gs(cid:863) f(cid:396)o(cid:373) the souls of black folk, 1903. The veil (separation between himself and the world, imposed on him, from his sheer blackness, discovering his blackness) Spiritual striving (cid:862)the souls of white folk(cid:863) f(cid:396)o(cid:373) darkwater, 1920. The modernity of the concept of whiteness and of the concept of race itself.