HSCI 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Post-Structuralism, Gayle Rubin, Fallacy

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSCI 120
• Professor: Rodney Hunt

Document Summary

Engels important theorist in social determinants of health, important for public health. Writing from marxist tradition, theorizing social organization of our lives in terms of economics. Feminism, post-structuralism (emphasizes plurality of meaning and instability of the concepts we use to organize ourselves) The monogamous family the first form of the family to be based on economic conditions, not natural conditions. Illustrated in this theory that marriage was dependant on economic considerations, and the monogamous family brought about the subjugation of women under capitalist conditions. Two types: wife"s attendant lover (not institutionalized) and the husband of the unfaithful wife. Albas (aubades, songs of dawn), women"s lovers celebrated. How engels has theorized the arrangement of social relationships and how it relates today. Sex-love really only arises between the wife of a bourgeois man, and the oppressed social classes. Capitalism > disparities between those who were accumulating wealth and those who were working. This also brought changes to the family and sexual arrangements.