SOSC 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Socialist Feminism, Dua, Social Inequality
25 Apr 2013
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Lecture 8: asian migration and canadian miscenegation policies in the late 1800s. Over the last few decade academics such as dei and stasiulus have theorized the relationship of race, gender, and class, and more recently, sexuality and differently abled bodies. Each have also attempted to show how central these issues of identity are in shaping our lives. Barrette illustrated how women"s labour force participation had been much less about individual choice than a matter of institutional and structural shifts in the economy and capital"s need for women"s labour. During the war women provided with daycare and social services so that they were able to work, when the war was over these social services are withdrawn. The role of social institutions in perpetuating gender norms. Social institutions such as the state play an important role in perpetuating notions of gender and, in this case, motherhood.
