SA 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Second-Wave Feminism, Truck Driver, Bus Driver
Document Summary
Men and women are situated differently in economic and social ways. Distribution of resources on the basis of gender. Critically analyze cultural and social beliefs and practices concerning gendered division of labour today. Recognize the intersections of class and racial inequalities in relation to the gendered division of labour. Industrialization and development of the nuclear family: female-dominated occupations. Family business (general store: male-dominated occupations. Contemporary urban society: more neutral/equal. Matrilineal etc: strongest bond was between mother and child. Social roles of gender division of labour: women carried some control over their sexuality, some degree of authority. Medicinal knowledge, ancient herbs, and birth control. White settler society: established by europeans of non-european land, racial hierarchy. Slavery: intersectionality with race (gender was racialized, black and mostly indigenous peoples were enslaved. Development of urban centres, factories and city jobs were becoming populated. Working class women did find jobs in factories: paid 1/3 of a man s wage.