WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wgst, Labour Power, Mary Wollstonecraft

• School: Brock University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1F90
• Professor: Jenny Janke

Document Summary

Key concepts: discourse, praxis, meritocracy, systemic oppression, production for exchange, production for use, patriarchal capitalism, feminization of poverty, patriarchy, consciousness raising (cr, rape culture. Theory is a blueprint: a way to explain how and why the world functions. General accounts of how a ranged of phenomena are connected: discourse: historically variable ways of specifying knowledge that links concepts into ideas we write, speak, think and act within discourses. We need theoretical frameworks to address both the nuances of social/economic/political life and larger systems. Most travel between theories and draw upon various conceptual tools. Feminist theory is about doing - a critical and political practice (praxis). Address the "gap" between theory and practice: must analyze systemic oppression, yet be attentive to individual specificities. Should be accessible to a wide audience: women, men those who do not have the priviledge of a university education. Intersectional: recognizes that oppression is not based only on gender-race, class, ability, sexuality.