FEM 2111 Study Guide - Final Guide: Welfare Fraud, Centre Wellington, Ontario, Class Discrimination

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2111
• Professor: Krystle Maki

Document Summary

Emotional labour, intimate labour, body work, sex work. Feminization of labour, local care chains, global care chains. Commodification of daily life/social reproduction, commodification of love, As discussed in class, women are the reproductive workers of capitalism. Gottfried: trying to give us explaination on why the wage gaps exists. Women would usually take on the social reproductive tasks, they stay at home. Gendered expectation of social reproduction and who performs that. Social reproduction isn"t socialized in any way (ex. The home as a site of where productive labour was being performed but it was feminized and devalued. Fpe in its critique of tradition economy was trying to get us to think about work being done in places that aren"t necessarily considered a workplace such as the home. Fpe is a framework for analysing the ways in which jobs are gender coded and segregated in a way that privileges hegemonic masculinity and discounts/devalues femininity and alternative forms of masculinity according to gottfried.