SOC365H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Nancy Chodorow, Class Discrimination, Feminist Theory
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Much of feminist theory has proceeded on the assumption that gender is indeed a variable of human identity independent of other variables such as race and class, The work of nancy chodorow has seemed to provide feminist theory with a strong foundation for these arguments. It has explicitly and implicitly been used to justify the assumption that there is nothing problematic about trying to examine gender independently of other variables such as race, class, and ethnicity. Chodorow offers what appears to be a very promising account of the relations between gen- der identity and other important aspects of identity such as race and class. For while she treats gender as separable from race and class, she goes on to suggest ways in which the sexist oppression intimately connected to gender differences is related to racism and classism. We have to understand the different "relational capacities" and "senses of self" in girls and boys, women and men.
