SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Second-Wave Feminism, Reproductive Rights
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Know the basic arguments & identify the main arguments + terminology. Women as a special class, a special case, outside of modernity, not like men. Contemporary societies: functionalist of gender roles within the modern family. Example: men have an instrumental role & the mother has an expressive role- she negotiated the relationships within the family. Critique: looks at gender roles as complementary, it does not look at how they are dysfunctional (inequalities) It looks at gender as solely something that is within the heterosexual family. Micro view of gender: look at how gender is produced in a night club. Example: house work: how men and women have different roles. Critique: doesn"t put enough emphasis on the macro, it focuses on the micro issues of power. It doesn"t address how other factors such as race and class affect gender. Marxism: class struggle of a capitalist society. Conflict within the classes is a defining feature of history.
