FSEM 1110 Study Guide - Final Guide: Tomboy, Ebay, Male Privilege

• School: University of Denver
• Department: First-Year Seminar
• Course: FSEM 1110
• Professor: Raschke Carl

Document Summary

Gender is so much the routine ground of everyday activities that questioning its taken-for-granted assumptions and presuppositions is like wondering about whether the sun will come up. Gender is so pervasive that in our society we assume it is bred into our genes. Gender signs and signals are so ubiquitous that we usually fail to note them - unless they are missing or ambiguous. Most parents create a gendered world for their newborn by naming, birth announcements, and dress. Women oppression and subordination realistic or not to hope for a sexual egalitarian society. Male aggression and dominance are the root of female oppression. Marx: women"s generally lower wages add surplus to capitalist employers: is housework productive labor, wife are among the necessities of a worker. Engel: sees sex oppression as capitalism"s heritage from prior social forms: believes a human group must do more than apply its activity to reshaping the natural world in order to clothe, feed,