WSTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Reproductive Rights, Wage Labour, Heteropatriarchy
4 Jun 2016
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Simon de boudoir women become sex and is constructed as the other through the idea of sex. The eugenics movement also affected men but the majority was women- women of color were deemed as unfit in society. They were stopped from reproducing as their kids would never come out as white babies. Only the "fit"" white privilege women were deemed fit in society. Division of labour new tool for oppression division between the male and female work roles women were solely defined by their domesticated work however women of white were more likely to enter the public sphere. Even so, when women of color were employed in areas of their occupation they were devalued and depreciated. Types of feminism radical, marxist, transnational, indigenous the difference is how they understand gender oppression. The nuclear family = parents and their children. However, it was very different back than that it is today.
