FEM 2109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sex Industry, Capital Accumulation, Eurocentrism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2109
• Professor: Mythili Rajiva

Document Summary

Good that can be bought and sold on a market, treated as objects that have now feelings. Causes of industry explosion: wars and presence of military forces. Civil war and desperation, economic downfall links to use of women using their bodies as goods. Women used in warfare raping and pillaging : expansion of tourist industry. Used as a means of development, saps. Development is a discourse/ideology -> it is not linear: growth and normalization of pornography. Normalization of porn (popups on computers, ads on facebook) In the past it was harder to get a hold of (shame regarding pornography: internalization of arranged marriages. Mail order brides, women that will do anything to leave their countries (including selling themselves on the marriage markets) *we need to be careful of eurocentric ideals of marriage as many cultures still have arranged marriages (not all of them are forced, just arranged)