QUOTES Flashcards
“What we placed for is equality of chance, equality of opportunity”?
Nellie McClung
Shulamith Firestone said…?
“The natural reproductive difference between the sexes that led directly to the first division of labor”
What did Marx emphasize in his discussion of buying and selling labour power?
“That labour power must be reproduced on both a daily and generational basis.”
How did Heidi Hartmann define patriarchy?
as “a set of social relations which has a material base and in which there are hierarchical relations between men, and solidarity among them, which enable them to control women.”
For west and Zimmerman what does doing gender mean?
“Creating differences between girls, boys, women, and men. differences that are not natural, essential or biological” -differnces that, once constructed, “are used to reinforce the essentialness of gender.”
Joan Acker argues that the very “concept of a job” assumes…
A particular gendered organization of domestic labour and social production.
What does R.W. Connell states that…?
“Within any workplace, neighbourhood, or peer group, there are likely to be different under-standings of masculinity and different ways of ‘doing’ masculinity.”
Hegemonic masculinity is..?
“the idealized form of masculinity in a given historical setting” (Messerschmidt 1993). It is “culturally dominant” and it takes on “a position of cultural authority and leadership” (R.W. Connell)
Who identified three ways in which intersectionality has been theorized?
Choo and Ferree.
gender is a “performance” and therefore that the categories of men and women are constructed was stated by who?
Judith Butler
