CRM 2307 Lecture Notes - Idle No More, Michel Foucault, Angela Davis
22 Apr 2014
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Women in canada: acknowledging difference, death of the sisterhood, intersections of privilege and disadvantage. Taking it apart: aboriginal women, violence, power and resistance. Income: earn 75% of male wage, 41% of women in non standard labour arrangements, 19% of canadian women live in poverty. Labour force location: 70% of women in teaching, health, clerical, sales, and service. Political: continued gendered expectations of unpaid labour in home, assume greater responsibility for home and child care/elder care, 24. 6% of federal politicians, rate 44th in the world. Beauty imperative: social costs, financial costs, personal costs. Women collectively have less capital: constraints and privileges. Ideological (social knowledge: what is doable, what is thinkable, assumed ways of being women (women are more caring and nurturing for ex. ) Women break through the bounds but it is a challenge, it"s not easy to challenge these scripts; there are constraints: challenge the idea of the neo-liberal assumptions like that i deserve this because i made good choices.
