PHIL 2500 Lecture Notes - Sexual Assault, Reductionism, Prefix
22 Apr 2013
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A feminist analysis of sexual assault & domestic work (choice or. Coercion, exploitation, oppression, the arrogant eye, the loving eye. Exploitation- tension between exploitation and oppression, a contradiction. To oppress something is to press something in place, confine, molded. Not free to resist, hard to transcend oppression, analogy of the bird cage, you can"t just fly out of the bird cage. To be exploited- that person is malleable, or flexible, self maintaining, go on with what"s expected of them. If you are exploited, there need to be output, but even though their doing- but not enough to resist. They need to be self maintained if they are going to work for them. They"re doing , action, but not enough resist, escape. Uses psychology- the exploitation self-respect disappears, transfers to the person who is exploiting. They do what they need to do to survive. They displace their respect to the person who is exploiting them.
