SOC 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Neoliberalism, Tokenism, Blaxploitation

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 525
• Professor: Tonya Davidson

Document Summary

Nation: themes of militarism -> analogous to war in a patriotic way ideology: highlighting certain ideas and masking others. Gender: reinforce dominant gender thinking -> boston marathon example; sports a site where gender thinking is reinforced and challenged. Billie jean king -> gender and sexuality clothing -> volleyball + cheerleading pronographic discourse. Aziz ansari -> liberal feminism idea that women should have equal access as men to rights ; pay equity, equal representation. Most popular representation in pop culture and the least challenging. Example that capitalism is ne but there should be more female ceos. Doesn"t challenge other aspects of representation but that women should have more access. Always see a clear relationship between patriarchal oppression and capitalist oppression. Interested in women"s unpaid domestic labour -> childcare, emotional labour -> enables capitalist production. Beyond looking at just class; looking at relationship between gender, race, sexuality and class.