SOC 0851 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Marxist Feminism, Exploitation Of Labour, Separate Spheres
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The brief history of marriage: the idea of finding love in marriage is only about 200 years old in anglo- Rather childcare is devalued as a labor because it is done by women. The home became a safe harbor from the stresses of the outside world and became associated with femininity (private sphere). The economic sphere where people paid for their labor in the formal economy became an inherently masculine realm of social life (public sphere: transformed the very way in which people thought about what it meant to be gendered. Division of household labor: good provider role-dictates that a man"s primary obligation to his family is to work so as to meet his family"s material needs (narrows a man"s obligation to his family to its economic value. Puts a great deal of stress on men to meet this obligation) be a big wheel.
