WGST 2812 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sexual Intercourse, The Symbolic, Compulsory Heterosexuality

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 2812
• Professor: Lori Stinson

Document Summary

Sexual division of reproductive labour reinforces the sexual division of labour in the workforce: unpaid domestic work of women fuels capitalist economies. State support for women to assist with social reproduction. Policy measures to redress the sexual division of labour. Denial of citizenship rights to women (legal inequality) Confinement of women to the private sphere. Policies designed to address discrimination, in education, employment, etc. The sex/gender system; ideology of male supremacy. Male domination of women"s bodies (the sexual contract) Reproductive freedom; women"s power and control over their own bodies. The category woman obscures inequality between and among women. On the value of sex, sexuality & gender. Jensen argues we should study pornography as we would any product of the mass media. By studying what messages it contains, how it is produced, and how it is used by people in everyday life .