SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Social Forces, The Woman Question
Document Summary
Mixed old-school marxism with feminism to claim that gender, not class, was the dividing force of history. Socialist feminists claim root of all social relations stemmed from unequal gender relations. Hartmann and mackinnon: how capitalism combines with patriarchy to make women economically dependent on men"s income. Capitalists (men) reap all the benefits of women"s subordination. Women have disadvantaged position in the job market and within family. Radical feminists: gender inequality is first and foremost about power inequalities. Groups pitted against each other in struggle for resources. Power differentials and forces of socialization that operate in the world. Men and women act and interact in variety of ways and with unlimited possibilities for outcomes. Gender is not a fixed identity that we take into our interactions. Gender is a product of those interactions. Gender is a matter of active doing, not matter of natural being. To be a man or women is to perform masculinity or femininity.
