SY210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Second-Wave Feminism, Paradigm Shift, Nuclear Family
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Study of gender inequality has had a checkered history in sociology. In 1920, debate about rights of women in sociology. Sociologists in the forefront of women"s rights: by mid-20s, women"s rights vanished in sociology, sociology was more concerned with general theories, leaving out gender, things changed between 70s-90s. Sociology phd"s awarded by gender: mostly male from mid-60s to late-80s, then women started to skyrocket by 80s and were awarded more phds in sociology than men, women brought value systems influenced by second wave feminism to sociology. First wave feminism (late 1800s, early 1900s) - two emphases. Second wave feminism: concerns: emerged in 50s and 60s, gains made in first wave feminism, but different set of concerns, end to "patriarchal oppression, placing issues associated with the female experience at the centre of social policy, including: Legal elimination of workplace discrimination: abortion rights, control over own sexuality, gendered violence (rape, domestic violence)
