CAS WS 101 Lecture Notes - Gender Studies, Penis Envy, Gayle Rubin
18 Jan 2014
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Trafficking women and the origins of the sex/gender system. We need a similar anthropological understanding of different sexual cultures. Political economy of sex: originally published in 1975 in toward an anthropology of. Women: has become a foundational women"s studies text used across the disciplines, cited in other important works of gender theory by authors like judith butler and eve kosofsky sedgwick. The analysis of the causes of women"s oppression forms the basis for any assessment of just what would have to be changed in order to achieve a society without gender hierarchy. rubin, p. 393. The domestication of women: an alternate explanation of the problem of women"s historical oppression, a woman is a woman. She only becomes a domestic, a wife, a chattel, a playboy bunny, a prostitute, or a human dicta-phone in certain relations. Torn from these relationships, she is no more the helpmate of man than gold itself is money!etc.
