WSTA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Parental Leave, Louis Althusser, Unemployment Benefits

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One of the central idea of marxism is that economic relationships shape social interactions and are at the core of how we understand ourselves and the world around us (class consciousness). Following this understanding, what is gender consciousness? (see lorber, 2012, p. 69) Complex inequality is a concept that derives from the marxist feminist idea that it is the intersection of patriarchy and capitalism that creates women"s oppression (dual- systems theory). Argues that other systems - such as racism, colonialism, imperialism - also contribute to this gender oppression. Single mothers more affected by poverty, women working in global sweatshop industry. See mc call"s gender and complex inequalities (as cited in lorber, 2012, p. 76-80). Example (race, class and gender: not all women are affected by poverty in the same way. Thinking through: essays on feminism, marxism and anti-racism. Application 1: understanding globalization and the feminization of poverty.

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