GSST Exam 2

Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, 1963

gendered division of labor that started during industrial revolution; women doing necessary but very repetitive work; no satisfaction in what they do and no fulfillment

Angela Davis, “The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework” from Women, Race, and Class, 1983

focused on work and economics to make housework socialized; mindset about housework hasn’t changed because it sucks for everyone; industrializing housework; wages for housework

Pat Mainardi, The Politics of Housework, 1969

Maquilapolis, 2006; Vicky Funari and Sergio del Torre

worker’s rights, environmental issues, gender inequality, consumerism; effect of other’s consumption on the workers livelihoods

Bell Hooks, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, 1981

working does not equal liberation for many; intersectionality

Combahee River Collective, A Black Feminist Statement, 1977

if black women are free, everyone is free; no other classes were advocating for them so they had to do it themselves; interlocking oppression; “we”

Adrienne Rich, Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence, 1980

heterosexuality as an institution and form of power/compulsory; sexuality is a fraught issue for women because of sex work, virgin image, commodification, etc.

Audre Lorde, The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, 1978

deep feelings of the erotic that go beyond physical; the

Joan Nestle, My Mother Liked to F*ck

most vulgar; sexual freedom

Kim Tallbear, Making Love and Relations Beyond Settler Sex and Family, 2018

different formations of families and different functions outside of the standard nuclear family