FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Heteronormativity, Black Market, Proletariat

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Anna Bogic

Document Summary

The double ghetto (armstong & armstrong) women"s work in the home : women in the labor market: obscures their employment as housewives, domestic work; the rise and the demise of the housewife (double shift; working during the day, then doing the housework, historical context: home and work are difficult to distinguish, arrival of industrial capitalism: domestic production (mechanization of agriculture, factories, department stores, offices, racist barriers: black women as domestic servants; marriage as a factor; time consuming work in the home. Sites of oppression: state, motherhood, family: state: futile to changes laws eg: violence against women, family: reproducing the family; marriage, romantic love, beauty, dating, dieting, etc. are tools used by patriarchy to uphold heternormativity; love as an institution of male power and control; promotes vulnerability, dependence, possessiveness, prevents full development of women"s potential, motherhood: ideology: seeming naturalness and institutionalization women"s duty in patriarchal society: women"s identity inextricably linked with their ability to mother.