WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Multiculturalism In Canada, Post-Structuralism, Gender Binary
30 Oct 2017
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The ways political systems became dominant and influential forms of belonging and. Feminists suggest that many premodern groups were patriarchal. Identity was formed through belonging to a kin group and playing roles within the group. Ex. women under confucian cultures primarily were positioned and identified as daughters, wives, mothers. Occurred along with the growing influence of capitalist industrialization in the west and colonialism and imperialism in the rest of the world. Capitalism brought an emphasis on individual entrepreneurship. The rural poor moved to urban spaces in search of a livelihood in the new factories. Factory work was dangerous, hours were unregulated, and wages were low (only way to survive since other forms of work had been disrupted) In these growing urban areas, men and women found themselves required to identify as individuals. For women, they were still identified through their relationships to fathers and husbands. Women and men have different legal rights and privileges.
