SOSC 1700 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Afua Cooper, Heteronormativity, Dominant Culture
15 Dec 2013
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While women does not signify a universal category with universal experiences or goals, women are systematically oppressed by a system that privileges males over females and seeks to preserve male power. Women"s primary responsibility in and to the family plays a central role in women"s oppression. It makes women emotionally, socially and economically dependent on men and more vulnerable to male violence. Not all families are white, middle-class, heterosexual, etc. In many families (for example many working class and nonwhite families women have always worked. Many are kept out by the ideas and laws that shape the dominant ideology of the family. This dominant ideology is often used against women and those who don"t fit. Refer to readings to support your answer: history has often been written in the point of view of middle class white men, thus the contributions of women are often ignored in history.
