SOC 2112 Lecture 9: SOC 2112 - week 9
22 Nov 2016
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Background grandniece of harriet beecher stowe - he wrote uncle tom"s cabin . Our androcentric culture or the man made world (1911) Herland (1915) fictional novel about a feminist utopia committed in suicide in 1935 before letting cancer take her over influenced by marx and engels. Marx - capitalism and the production of social relations. Engels - the family and gender relations under capitalism another strong influence: Herbert spencer - evolutionary sociology uses the natural world of animals to make an argument for gender equality reform darwinism. Similar to simone de beauvoir it"s not just the nature but mostly about the conditions in which women live. The food supply of the animal is the largest passive factor in his development; the processes by which he obtains his food supply, the largest active factor in his development. The human animal is no exception to this rule .
