FEM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Happy House, Cultural Appropriation, Heteronormativity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2110
• Professor: Lori Stinson

Document Summary

Looks at the fantasy of the house wives. A happy house wife is the ideal of good femininity. This has been an ideal for long long time ago. The starting point/icon for what the right was of doing feminine or female is. Talking about a vision that was a part of white, middle and upper class society. Sets the ideology/ in which relationships are governed between people. Power is created through white, middle class superiority. The unequal distribution of feeling or promise of happiness . Old victorian i will be happy by making others happy . For women: you are in charge of your own happiness for men: women are in charge of your happiness. As women we should be focussing on being a good mother, marriage, and sex . Darla shines believes were missing what actually makes women happy, what we really be are happy housewives.