WGS160Y1 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Canada, Feminism, Heteronormativity
20 Nov 2018
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Outline: historicizing the nuclear family, gender division of labour, approaches to the household, queering social reproduction, counting unwaged worker. Concepts: public-private; gender division of labour; second shift/double burden; social. Reproduction; time-use surveys; unwaged producers; household as social factory. Heteronormativity: draws on the ideas of a stable and hierarchical gender binary; sees the heterosexual nuclear family as normal/natural. 18th/19th century and settled by the 20th century. It fixes the private/domestic sphere as women"s place. It suggests that the absence of a relationship to the labour market. Some assumptions about the household functions: complementary approaches: the household can be taken as a indivisible unit with reference to the interests of it"s members, the household is a utility maximizing unit. Assumptions of the ideal -typical nuclear family: the household is represented by the head (referred in early literature as the benevolent patriarch, men as instrumental (breadwinner) actors, women as affective (housewife) actors.
