CRM 2307 : jan22 class notes from pascale.docx
Document Summary
Intersections of privilege and disadvantage race class sex orientation. Taking it apart: aboriginal women, violence, power and resistance. Income : earn less, non standard labour arrangements (9-5 employment) Poverty : 19% of canadian women live in poverty: labour force location : 70% of women in teaching, health, clerical, sales and service, beauty imperative : social costs, financial costs, personal costs. Social roles : continued gendered expectations of unpaid labour in home. Neither determined nor free: less economic capital, less able to affect change (political, economic, social, personal, ideological - social knowledge, constraints (and privileges) - political capital, economic capital, social capital, Personal capital + ideological (social knowledge: conditions (of possibility) - what is doable, what is thinkable. Resistance : tactics, strategies and practices persons employ to assert agency and contest the conditions and/or implications of their position, recognize that people resist, to get away from, theoretical roots: foucaults power as a relationally-realized negotiated dynamic.
