GWST 1501 Lecture 4: GWST 1501 - Week 4

• School: York University
• Department: Gender and Women's Studies
• Course: GWST 1501
• Professor: Kristine Klement

Document Summary

Week 4 - the social construction approach 2: applying an intersectional. Skills that involve being able to see oneself, one"s world, and any given text, object, issue, or viewpoint within its larger historical and cultural concept: breadwinner/homemaker gender roles. Intersectionality: descries the way that systems of oppression (racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, classism) are interconnected, cannot be conceptualized separately and are not lived separately, micro level. Individual experience: macro level, systems of social inequality. Economy has played a powerful role in constructing contemporary gender roles, gender identities, and gender inequalities. Industrial revolution and the capitalist economic system created the gendered, racialized, and classes roles of breadwinner and housewife. Capitalist economic system was initially fueled by colonization and enslavement, in which stolen resources and people were some of the first things traded by the european capitalist. The capitalist economy was gender, race, and class stratified from the beginning. Capitalist or bourgeoisies: the owners of the means of production.