Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Marilyn Frye, Nuclear Family, Indian Act
13 Aug 2013
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L. thielen-wilson lecture slide points for what is oppression? ws1020e 2010. A claim about social systems: how they operate and the purpose they serve. Group based injustice; one group serves the interests of another group. Different oppressive systems: different means, similar end or purpose: european colonization of first nations peoples: Means: segregation (reserves); assimilation (irs); law (indian act; property law); imposition of nuclear family; private/public distinction; negative representations, violence . End: europeans control indigenous land/resources/ : european enslavement of black africans: Means: abduction, enslavement, segregation, prohibit nuclear family, law (property; End: europeans control black africans as property: control and profit from their labour; service homelife, etc. Hill collins the new racism ; culhane colonialism on-going ; . Systems of gender, race, class oppression operate simultaneously and through each other: different women situated differently in relation to the forces of interlocking systems. S4: sometimes oppression w/in western culture is difficult to see because:
