Soc Theory Exam 3

Parasite of a parasite

• MacKinnon “Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State”

• Marxist feminist Rosa Luxemburg said this about bourgeoisie women: they feed off their husbands, who are feeding off the working class

• Mackinnon thinks this ignores male domination in marriage & how wives lack power

“Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism”

• MacKinnon “Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State”

• Comparing and contrasting the two

• Two different theories of power relations, can’t be easily mapped onto each other

Consciousness-raising

• MacKinnon “Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State”

• Method for feminist theorizing, based women sharing lived experiences

Outsider Within

• Patricia Hill-Collins “Learning from the Outsider Within”

• Someone who sees it all but is not seen and is assumed to be not listening

• Historical position of Black women relative to dominant society & sociology field

• At the margins of white society but physically close → learn intimate secrets of white families

• Black feminists use this insight to analyze race, class, gender, power

Coming of age

• Butler, “Bloodchild”

• Gan learning about place in society, realization of lack of agency

• Loss of innocence → critical of systems of power

Reproduction & fixed capital

• Butler, “Bloodchild”

• Marxist view of the story

• Tlic rely on human bodies to reproduce. Mother cares for child to reproduce humans, which are exploited to reproduce Tlic. Routinized and seen as necessary labor

Harsh vs. gentle punishment

• Foucault “Discipline & Punish”

• Harsh punishment

  • Old regime

  • Violent, public, based on terror

  • Meant to deter crime

• Gentle punishment

  • Meant to reform behavior

  • Punishment is made to appear naturally associated with a crime

  • Beneficial to community

Panopticon

• Foucault “Discipline & Punish”

Genealogy

• Foucault “Discipline & Punish”

• Method

• Describes “the evolution of practices of knowledge within power relations”