GSWS 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Radical Feminism, Social Inequality, Identity Politics

• School: UPenn
• Department: Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies
• Course: GSWS 122
• Professor: Professor

Document Summary

> but not all interests shared within class. > interdependence of economic and family power structures. >even when women entered the paid labour force, they still had to deal with the unpaid housework. >men did not treat women working labour jobs as equal and were unwilling to give up power at home. >men"s power enhanced by women"s dependence on men"s wages. > both focus on differences between men and women. > maternalists= women have linked their roles/values as mothers to defend the interests and seek to extend influence to public realm/improve governmental decisions. > focus on violence against women, male control of institutions (domination, aggression, self interest, competitiveness - male characteristics) > put sexual abuse/rape culture/incest/witch hunts/ foot binding/ trafficking women/ medical mistreatment of women (eg. hysterectomies) on the table to be discussed and worked against - which they saw as men"s hatred of women"s bodies.