SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Single Parent, Jessie Bernard, The Feminine Mystique
Document Summary
The gendered family: gender at the heart of the home. History of canadian families: his marriage and her marriage: second shift and the inequality within the family. Marxist/socialist feminism: focuses on the problem of capitalist economic system based on gender and class exploitation, critiques of capital. Liberal feminism: focuses on women"s integration and inclusion into the pre-existing social institutions; overcoming difference and exclusion, highlights equal opportunity & anti-discrimination policies, individual choices. Multiracial and postcolonial feminism: focuses on the need to integrate feminism with struggles against racism and colonialism, attends to differences among women; intersectional approach to social inequality. Tension between liberal and radical politics: see the system as inherently unjust, minor tweaks can not change the unjust nature of an economic system based on unfair labour. Men"s movements: pro-woman/feminist, reactionary (men"s rights activism, social inequality equally affect men and women.
