WGST 311 Lecture Notes - Parenting, Proletariat, Bourgeoisie

• School: U of S
• Department: Womens and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 311
• Professor: Donna Darbellay

Document Summary

Different tactic of putting women in the home post war. -treatment of mental health today different sort of medications to numb. -hard to put oneself in situation in domestic life of this era. -unique qualities groundbreaking, unique article that broke through for quite a lot of women. Compared oppression of women (marriage, sex, babies) related to bourgeoisie / proletariat. Normativity of heterosexuality . opposition , difference raising one above the other through this, men have power / women do not. Men as dominators, oppressors yet men as victims of patriarchal powers context of article people attempting to find a way to articulate (say, lesbian politic) Understanding the assumed logic of women as universally inferior to men; necessary to find source, the universality of women as considered inferior and through this, find change in our ways of thinking. Main argument: that women are assumed as closer to nature, and therefore inferior.