WOMENST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Thilo Sarrazin, Nationstates, Endangerment
10 Mar 2016
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All states engage to a certain degree in establishing, maintaining, and policing the divide between the public and the private spheres: family values, obscenity and prostitution laws, maternity/paternity leaves, pensions and taxes. The state (in western liberal democracies) is the main organizer of the power relations of gender. (pettman) Men"s status as full citizens relies, historically, on their ability to control and represent a house full of dependents (women, children and slaves) More difficult to suss out: the representational role women fulfill in articulating the state"s essence and its cultural mission: idealized race, class, and morality, conveyors of culture, customs, songs, religion, ethics, cuisine, and language. Women"s domestic role is crucial to the nation-state"s self understanding: therefore, it isn"t private after all. Anti- islamism political and cultural sentiment in france, holland, denmark, Primarily, turkish immigrant families (post-1950), who may or may not practice islam.
