GENDER 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Heteronormativity, Federal Housing Administration, John Maynard Keynes
Document Summary
Citizenship: membership and belonging in a nation-state. Marriage historically unavailable for working class and poorer peoples. Rights and privileges stratified by race, class, gender. Contemporary welfare is structured to encourage people to be married. An economic policy that merged in the 1970s that advocates for reduced government intervention and regulation of the economy, free markets, and privatization of public resources. More broadly used to reference related social values of personal responsibility, choice, individualism, entrepreneurship, as well as the application of cost-benefit analyses to all aspects of life. Neoliberal thinking permeates all aspects of social life. Value of education, especially higher education (cost-benefit analyses) Protect from ups and downs from capitalistic economy. Attacks go toward the tier 1 welfare provisions. Tier 1: afdc, welfare often associated with single mothers with children. Tier 3: social safety net programs, which are not even thought of as welfare; mortgage interest taxes reduction. State given benefit that helps people who are wealthier.
