SOSC 1700 Study Guide - Final Guide: Compulsory Heterosexuality, Sexual Sterilization Act Of Alberta, Skin Whitening
15 Dec 2013
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The personal is political": what appears personal and private and an individual person s circumstances is shown to be shaped by institutional policies and ideologically based values that differ across time and space. This is not just an individual problem but a structural, political, and social problem. The global do not exist apart from one another but rather constitute each other. Traffic between the intimate and the global further attest to the personal is political. global concepts are often masculinized, whereas notions that are perceived on local or intimate terms are more feminized. Domestic and social spheres are confined to the local, seen as feminine in nature and considered of lesser value and importance: while capital is mobile, social reproduction is rooted in place. Migrant (domestic) workers have to make their own intimate lives invisible to facilitate the intimate lives of their employer.
