WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Intersectionality, Outsourcing, Invisibility

• School: UTSG
• Department: Women and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS160Y1
• Professor: Jude Larkin

Document Summary

Social reproduction: the physical, mental and emotional (caring) labour involved in the everyday and intergenerational maintenance of life itself. Caring labour: the work of looking after the physical, psychological, emotional and developmental needs of one or more other people. Institutional constraints: outsourcing the second shift, care chains, paid domestic workers as political actors. From the gender division of labour to paid domestic work: Kimberle crenshaw: intersectionality: acknowledges that every person exists in the framework of multiple identities, highlights the ways in which there is simultaneous interaction of discrimination that arise from these multiple identities (verma, 2003), first term revision. Some factors behind the declining demand for live- in domestics up to the 1960s: de(cid:272)li(cid:374)i(cid:374)g fertility rates (cid:894)less (cid:271)a(cid:271)ies! (cid:895, i(cid:373)pro(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts i(cid:374) household te(cid:272)h(cid:374)ology (gadgets!, market produ(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of goods (cid:894)less drudge ti(cid:373)e! (cid:895) Women in paid work economist article dec. 30th 2009: we did it! (cid:862)wo(cid:373)e(cid:374) s e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) e(cid:373)po(cid:449)er(cid:373)e(cid:374)t is argua(cid:271)ly the (cid:271)iggest so(cid:272)ial (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge of our ti(cid:373)es.