SOC244H5 Lecture Notes - Harriet Taylor Mill, The Feminine Mystique, Marxist Feminism
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The enlightenment / age of reason : the enlightenment is characterized as a period of reason, knowledge, science and freedom. A period focused on human happiness and human self-actualization (mcdonald, 1993: 9-10: rational, scientific, universal civilization was at the heart of the. According to the materialist conception, the determining factor in history is, in the final instance, the production and reproduction of the immediate essentials of life. 239: his main thesis: inequalities which exist in the modern family is a, women as subordinate- doing all the work (activities which result of the development of private property subordinate and make them the domestic servants) There ought to be perfect equality between the sexes, permitting no power or privilege to the one side, or disability to the other (mill, j. s. and harriet taylor mill, It is easy to see the concrete details that trap the suburban housewife, the continual demands on her time.
