SOC365H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sexual Capital, Marxist Feminism, Radical Feminism
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Equal pay, access and opportunity in society as it can be worked out in the courts and through policy: marxist feminism. Marxist conception of women"s position in the society. Concerned with women"s relationship in the mode of production. How women and men relate to labor, capitalism, and domestic division of labor: radical feminism (anti-porn or anti-sex feminism) Contributed in a debate about the role of pornography against different camps of feminism. Problem of women is not so much informal inequality or in the labor market. In the respect to women"s sexual relations to men: focuses on this relation and in the institution of marriage. Developed the concept of the personal is political: socialist feminism. Focus on labor inequality by gender & sexual relations between men and women and how those produce oppressive relations for women: cultural feminism. Assumes women have a special nature by virtue of ability to bare children: this special nature needs to be observed, protected, revered.
