WS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Age Of Enlightenment, Feminist Theory, Wage Labour
14 Dec 2017
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Ws 100 - a: lecture: tuesday, september 19th: Gender inequality: unequal opportunity, socialization of children into distinct gender roles. Politics: of the workplace, location that liberal feminism gets to work. Critique: focus on career women, ignores differences among women. Contributions: workplace equality, political and legal rights for women. Roots: marxist theory: critique of class battle between proletariat (wage labour) and bourgeoisie (owning class); proletariat seen as site of revolution. Gender inequality: economic (capitalist) oppression of marginalized groups on the basis of gender, race and class, feminization of poverty . Critique: gender focus can sometimes be lost. Contributions: visibility to complex social structures of exploitation, significance of unpaid domestic labour, class analysis. Roots: feminist praxis and theory in the 1960"s and 1970"s. Gender inequality: structural oppression of women (patriarchy), eg. rape, domestic violence, sexul harrassment, lesbian oppression), the personal is political and collective politics. Critique: alienates working and heterosexual women, essentialism and global distrust of men.
