Women's Studies 2162A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Organ Trade, Symbolic Power, Commodification

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2162A/B
• Professor: Andrea Allen

Document Summary

Tissue economies, body bazaars and the commodification of body fragments. Symbolic violence (soft/gentle violence): the coercion through consent of a dominating group/person over the dominated group/person. Everyday violence: little violence"s produced in the structures, habits, and mentalities of everyday life in terms of class, race, and gender inequalities. Structural violence: institutional forces like racism, sexism, political violence, severe socioeconomic inequality, among other societal mechanisms that severely affect and inflict harm on people. Social suffering: human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease, torture any problems that result from institutional power human responses as they are influences by the forms of power. Emphasis on individual choice, freedom within a free market economy. Restructuring and cuts to fund social policy. New relations between capital and work, bodies and the state, citizenship and social and medical inclusion (and exclusion) are emerging. Living donation: a kidney (or part of the liver, lung, small bowel or pancreas can be donated through living donation.