MDSA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Emotion Work, Heteronormativity, The Hidden Curriculum
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First cluster: the gendered body: biological vs cultural definitions of gender, the body as a social construction (health and sexuality, different explanations of violence (essentialist, psychological, feminist, intersectional) Gender equity and human rights: gender equality within social institutions: gendered family, gendered classroom & gendered workplace, intersecting systems of oppression. 1. contribute to maintaining and strengthening the (often unequal) social structure. Institutions and hegemonic masculinity kplace): inance over women is institutionalized through particular practices and represents a collective strategy (connell). (subordinate). Stroking , acceptance of marriage and childcare, adaptability (connell). 3. domestic (unpaid) work women spend more hours/week than men on house work, childcare and eldercare, although men"s participation in housework is increasing (men: 2. 1 hours/day in. Women: 4. 8 in 1986 to 4. 2 in 2001 - statscan) 2. the family has often been regarded by feminists as a hegemonic, patriarchal and heteronormative structure that perpetuates male lineage and male supremacy. Changes in family (reading: scott coltrane 171-186) research show?)
