SOCI 2040 Lecture Notes - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Secondary Sex Characteristic, The Yellow Wallpaper
27 Nov 2013
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Overview and background; theory of economic dependence; theory of sex- distinction; theory of socialization; theory of patriarchy. Text notes: one of the first to seek to explain how men and women came to have their respective societal roles and why societies developed gender inequalities. Drew from 3 main theoretical perspectives: darwinism, marxist theory (a. Marxist emphasis on the economic and political basis for gender inequality) and. The division of labour of a traditional family has the wife, as a stay at home mom and the husband as a breadwinner, was an issue because it made women dependent on men. Marx focused on the evils of capitalism, gilman did not. But, as marx saw the worker exploited in a capitalism system. Born 1860, hartford, ct, usa; childhood; education. 1888: separation; move to california; discovery of marxism and other socialist utopian thinking. 1898-1935: widening international recognition as a writer, activist and (later) a sociologist.
