SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Socialist Feminism, Institutional Racism, Misogyny
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White women will buy what they see on white models. Black women are not the target market: limited disposable income. Agents and designers: self-selecting and promoting white women. Where does the colour of beauty come from . **cycle*: agrarian societies, women as property of men to control bloodline. Innovation of new means of production: industrialization, manufacturing jobs, nuclear families. Changing social relations: women"s rights: advanced capitalism, waged work, access to political power: access to education, own property, control reproduction. Society best organized gendered spheres (private and public: division of labour between men and women is natural not imposed. Boys and girls internalize gender role expectations: gendered occupations: perform gender roles in relationships. Socialization maintains inequality, it does not explain the cause of inequality . Patriarchy is a sex-class system of male power. Sustained through law and culture: sexual violence, pornography, domestic violence. Socialist feminism: intersection of class and gender: unpaid work of domestic care.