ANTB20H3 Lecture 6: The Global Factory (11th February)
Document Summary
Sex vs gender biological vs cultural and social underpinning: what it means to be a man/woman is different in one culture compared to another. Household as a site of politics, of gender upbringing, of powerful ideological discourses: the world we live in is mostly based on patriarchy, ex: companies consist mainly of men. This leads to women being, in a sense, forced to be in certain domains. Ex: women as caregivers, they belong in the household. o o: ex: women belonging in the private sphere", ex: women as irrational, as docile, thinking with their hearts. Concrete ideas and practices social distinctions and hierarchies are interpreted and eroticized. Idea of gender as being constructed over time, it becomes naturalized eroticized: you expect or assume that women are such and such, ex: black male as being over-sexualized. Different ranks of sex workers (outsiders, locals: globalization promotes human rights, gender rights through social movements/gender movements.
