WSTA03H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Queer Theory, Heteronormativity, Masculinity
19 Dec 2012
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Female gender is an invisible part of the economic process. Women is the subordinate gender due to patriarchy. Women and men can both to child rearing or holding a job. Source of inequality restriction of women in the private sphere. Advocates that women have to be the same to be equal. Gerson proposed theory of female subordination: internalized mental structures. Exploitation of women"s work in the global economy and at home. Normative sex and gender binaries replicated by culture and the individual. Exploitation of women in unwaged work for the family. Patriarchy -system of subordination of women legitimated by social institutions. Permanent waged work for women government subsidized, Confront the root of subordination of women in the social order. Heteronormativity the view that everyone is heterosexual and that heterosexual relationships are normal. International view of subordination based on cultural context, laws against global sexual exploitation of women. Reliance on welfare state benefits just changes the agent of domination!
