FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jessica Valenti, Wage Labour, Cisgender

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Mythili Rajiva

Document Summary

Capitalism = economic system characterized by private property c wage labour, where those who own the means of production employ those who don"t, who are forced to sell their labour power to live. Cisgender = person whose self-identity conforms with the gender that corresponds to their sex. Most young women are feminist but are too afraid to say so: reasons, feminists are ugly. How their appearance becomes the number 1 thing about them. If she is ugly this becomes a huge thing: things are fine the way they are. We don"t need to a feminist because things are fine the way they are: feminism is for old white ladies. Not understand to what is it makes people not want to follow it. Not on slides: sarah ahmed: the feminist killjoy. The feminist killjoy spoils" the happiness of others; she is a spoilsport because she refuses to convene, to assemble, or to meet up over happiness .