ANT204H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Brodkin Sacks: Class Consciousness
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Toward a unified theory of class race gender brodkin sacks. Redo marx"s notion of class to include women/racial elements (he only focused on white male in floor shop struggle) (pre text reading explains better than i can domestic labor vs capitalism as primary* views) Similarities between unwaged labor of racially defined colonoized people/women = potential to be revolutionary class. Marxist-feminist: 4 structures of oppression production, reproduction, sexuality, socialization of children. Women directly exploited through social responsibility for unwaged domestic labor. [cap as primary] less exploitable in wage section labor = less valuable, therefore sub to men for capitalists. Gender and class subordination = product of two mutually reinforcing systems of domination. Public patriarchy shows shift from male control over women to state control of family. Black women domestic workers construct social identity based on contribution to families/communities to reject occupation/status definining them [created by white society]
