SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Credentialism And Educational Inflation, Friedrich Engels, Marxist Feminism
3 Apr 2016
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Impact of industrializaion: families were no longer units of producion, but units of consumpion. Emergence of private property resulted in control over women"s idelity. Marriage and monogamy (women"s idelity) is important when thinking about nuclear family. Men worried about how to transmit inheritance to sons - involves female idelity. Though strict inancial controls on women because men want to ensure that it is their biological ofspring who is inheriing their wealth. For karl marx, families are important for capitalists because they regenerate workers - fed, clothed, taken care of so that they can return. Families also site of producing next generaion of workers. Her basic argument: capitalism is reliant on this unpaid labour. Housework, meal preparaion, preparaion are criical to families. Developed concept of patriarchy - social control of women by men and look at these relaions that give men more power within families. Diference: looking at families as a site of potenial conlict o.
