Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Structural Inequality, Compulsory Heterosexuality, Heteronormativity
4 Oct 2018
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Gives use the tools and language to describe a problem and to think about how to change that problem. All men should be equally free to pursue liberty and freedom. Capable of rational thought and competing in a meritocracy (individual hard work= success) Want access to education, employment, political participation: the public sphere. Informal economy and reproductive work is devalued because it is unproductive (aka unpaid) Engels argued that women"s oppression would be eliminated through economic independence from men: by entering the paid work force or by paying for/outsourcing domestic duties. Some marxist feminists argue that having children should be valued because it means making future workers. Primary site of oppression is at the intersection of patriarchy and capitalism. "a woman is always a women, even when she is working" (jagger in. Women"s liberation cannot come through paid employment lone: produces the. Women"s liberation cannot come through paid employment lone: produces the double day/ second shift.
