SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Marxist Feminism, Gender Identity, Equal Opportunity
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Production of knowledge is gendered (e. g. denial of access, lack of representation, lack of voice). Social relations of reproduction as well as production (work environment) Key issue: exclusion of women = exclusion of women"s perspectives. Dominant institutions and paradigms privilege the male view. Women"s activities are made invisible (e. g. housework = not working). Liberal feminism equal opportunity (targeting legal and political opportunities) Marxist feminism capitalism (targeting who owns the means of production/the work environment) Socialist feminism double exploitation (targeting exploitation in the work environment and exploitation by males) Radical feminism patriarchy (targeting exploitation by men; e. g. sexual violence) Cultural feminism gender as discourse (targeting the cultural practices regarding women) Essentialism: the idea that there"s something fundamentally different between men and women. When we are given images of women as homemakers, etc. , it is not simply internalized. Women witness these images and choose to either accept or reject them.
