SOC 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Abigail Bakan, Feminist Theory, Reductionism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2112
• Professor: Joseph Sawan

Document Summary

What works and what does not work (supplementary reading) bridge the conversation together to provide a framework. Politics of difference as a central analytic for exploring the utility of marx specifically in relation to exploitation, alienation & oppression how we look at difference in terms of conversation. They are distinct concepts for her as to how they help us understand inequality. Significant assumptions by postmodern critics of marx similar observations as. Gimenez (2005) regarding feminist theory reductionist of marx. He does address race directly but works around it. This competitive order is the product of a capitalist system that depends upon and reproduces atomization and separation among human actors. Each process exploitation, alienation, and oppression operates with its own dynamic. The same would be for exploitation: our relations are also shaped to what is found in terms of these matters.