ANTH 2501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Free Good, Capital Accumulation, Nile
Document Summary
Exploitation of women is not an accidental phenomenon. Patriarchy is at the heart of capitalism: housewifization, by defining women as housewives, it does two things, not only do their unpaid work in the household becomes invisible, unrecognized, unrecorded in. Gdp but it also treated as a free good. Move to modernity is not a single track multiple forms of modernity: modern state of india has a form of modernity that we may not consider modern but is modern: for example women wearing saris. Another example is religion: leaving religion is considered being modern. Argues colonial modernity is the basis for capital accumulation. Another form of colonization: destruction of autonomy of women over their bodies and lives. Processes of colonial modernity are dual other countries/places and women are defined as colonies to be exploited by white men for capital to be accumulated. Exploitation and subordination of their own women, nature, other people and their lands.
