SOC 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Simone De Beauvoir
28 Nov 2016
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Our androcentric culture or the man made world (1911) Herland (1915) fictional novel about a feminist utopia. Grandniece of harriet beecher stowe - he wrote uncle tom"s cabin . 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. Uses the natural world of animals to make an argument for gender equality reform darwinism. Didn"t take the survival of the fittest view, rather, they said that the state should have some sort of responsibility in ensuring all people have some sort of access to equality. Subtitle a study of the economic relation between men and women as a factor in social evolution . Similar to simone de beauvoir it"s not just the nature but mostly about the conditions in which women live.
