SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Victimology, Intersectionality, Gender Inequality

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Marxist feminists: argue that men are involved more in the production of things but women are more involved with labour in the home. Radical feminists: biological fact, less about creating equality, women forced into gender subordination extends into other areas of our life. Socialist feminists: combine radical and marxist theories, this inequality further subordinates women, talk about idea that men and women have different positions of power in terms of their mode of production (marxist) Postmodern feminists: women are supposed to behave in particular ways is the critical issue, crime is the secondary problem, once we figure out gender roles crime will decrease. Example: kathleen daly and meda chesney-lind gender inequality rooted in class inequality equality in society means equality in types and individuals based on how we think they should behave) amount of crime. Marxist theories: not just about gender differences, it is also about class based inequality.