WS204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Africville, Eugenics, Mass Production
12 Mar 2014
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Picton murder important in understanding how many hierarchies there are. Sexual assault: the university promotes things like don"t dress like a slut, don"t talk to strangers and don"t promote anything like don"t rape . Exclusive restaurants: class based on gender male servers (attached to intelligence, serving as a career) Definition of masculinity is politically, socially through science (you must protect women, the must not be in public places)this preserves public space as male space. A good women stayed at home, cleaned the house, and didn"t do anything substantial (good middle class family) Today: a good middle class family: heterosexual. Expansion of capitalism which is based on the idea of exploitation. Exploitation: how can i utilize my labor is such a way as to increase my profit, as much efficiency and productivity out of my labor force in the cheapest way. We used to have to make all our belongings and food.
