SOSC 1140 Lecture Notes - Overproduction, Nuclear Family, Penis Envy

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1140
• Professor: Patti Nyman

Document Summary

Women"s liberation did not create the working woman; rather the working woman especially the working housewife created women"s liberation (harris 89). When people change the way they make a living changing in all social order like gender roles in the family: women in the labour force (cid:222) Changes in economic condition that forced women to go to work in the first place: debunking the rebellion-by-inspiration theory. Theory: idea that people were inspired first and then rebelled (women thought they could work and be independent. However: women did not spontaneously want to change their place in household were pushed by economic conditions (family expenses etc. ) Most women had no idea the other struggles (race etc. ) existed. Very little access to discourse in society (where the heck is the. They were not inspired by anything to do anything special. The domestic role of women following world war ii: the myth of the housewife as the universal condition of women.