Civil society holds the keyhere.
yeah in liberal democracies...
Civil society holds the keyhere.
yeah in liberal democracies...
Three points for services to victims
interesting point system
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reading gender into the social
historicize
meaning -- looking into the past to see the evolution if the meaning of a concept, to place something a historical context, at the moment of imperial emergence, how has it been historically understood, what are the origins how was established how did it change over time, also implies a historiographical reading, to give history to a concept that ha sbeen viewed as ahistorical, giving it temporality/legitimacy, taken for granted concepts events, like ahistorical rethinking;
More signiWcantly perhaps for the future of Britishimperial history, the archive stories which feminist historians have to tellinterrogat
starting here next class
hus the contents of the archives reveal as much –if not more – about the coloniser than the colonised, as well as their co-mutualconstruction as colonial subjectivities
what does the archive reveal? about who?
Femonationalism
Context, domestic labour socially visible as work
interesting! hegemonic reconfiguration: how do those in power stay in power
migrant women’s labor seems to obey its own rules. On theone hand, it follows the rules of gender and the “sexual contract” within thehousehold, which establishes that women are still in charge of reproductionand care. 36 Further, it follows the rules of the “racial contract,” according towhich ethnic minorities and people of color perform the least desirable andvalued tasks in a society.3
migrant women's labour seems to obey its own rules
although she does not provide evidence that the children whosemothers come are worse off than they would be if their mothers stayed—that is,that the trade-off between losing their mothers’ time and gaining the money theirmothers earned was not worth it
This is a gap which Isaksen's research fills, mention that!
Coleman (1993) argued that society has an interest in how well parentsdo the job of parenting, and he suggested that to get the incentives right, the stateshould offer payments to parents based on whether their children turn into a netbenefit or drag on society.
that is a little problematic
ngs. Scott offers a masterful deconstruction of the cof experience but stops short of actually redefin
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Thucydides and Herodotus,
'founding fathers' of western historical writing; prior more focused on political military diplomatic history, latter more linked to women's history in a general sense; used to represent two different approaches to writing history; states and power vs the everyday, the social religious the erotic etc
The total fertility rate (TFR) has not reached what is typicallyconsidered sufficient for reproduction since 1959 (KSH 2019a)
the infamous 2.1
the crux of the conflict between production and reproduction
"Doing unpaid care work does not carry a social insurance scheme, and claims to the state cannot be made on the basis of raising children, or being good parents."
ocial citizenship
= claims on the state on the basis of social insurance and material need
Apart from safeguarding the political arena from potentialoligarchs, then, the goal of the democratic legislation was not practical ormoral but symbolic: it was designed not to alter the facts of Athenian sociallife or to reform individual Athenians but to disseminate among the citizensof Athens a new collective self-understanding, an image of themselves asfree and autonomous and equal participants in the shared rule of the cityprecisely insofar as they were all (rich and poor alike)-in principle, at leastequally lords over their own bodies
interesting
Freedomfrom servility, exemption from torture, and corporeal inviolability weremarkers that distinguished citizens from slaves and from foreign residentsin Athens.
body as a site of ciizenship
The body of themale citizen constituted that zone
the body - a site where the infuence of economic inequalities did not extend
The most telling evidence for the co mplete integration ofmale prostitutioninto the very structures of classical Athenian life also comes from the speechof Aeschines quoted at the outset. But it does not come from anythingAeschines says. Rather, it derives from the occasion of his speech, from thefact that it was written to be delivered at a trial: the evidence is furnished, inother words, by the speech's unarticulated social/political/juridical/sexualcontext.
discourse analytic perspective.. deconstruction?
Woman’s
in the singular; deliberate
Emma Goldman
Reproductive rights; free love Anarcha-feminist: what is that: * skeptical of authority; calls for dissolution of the state as a source of oppression * the liberation of the human mind from religion, body from property, and from the shackles of government, social order based on the free groupings of individual every human being free access to the world
The idea that some members are unequal and must submit to other members of one and the same class is in contradiction with the basic proletarian principle of comradeship.
key quote?
If, amongst the complicated labyrinth of contradictory and tangled sexual norms, you want to find the beginnings of more healthy relationships between the sexes – relationships that promise to lead humanity out of the sexual crisis – you have to leave the “cultured quarters” of the bourgeoisie with their refined individualistic psyche, and take a look at the huddled dwelling-places of the working class.
one of the keys to making sense of how sexual norms will be affected by the proletariat revolution
The three basic circumstances distorting the modern psyche – extreme egoism, the idea that married partners possess each other, and the acceptance of the inequality of the sexes in terms of physical and emotional experience – must be faced if the sexual problem is to be settled.
summary of argument
Society still wants a woman to take into account, when she is making her choice, rank and status and the instructions and interests of her family. Bourgeois society cannot see a woman as an independent person separate from her family unit and outside the isolated circle of domestic obligations and virtues.
individualism is not available to women, not seen as virtue like it is for men
The “inequality” of the sexes – the inequality of their rights, the unequal value of their physical and emotional experience – is the other significant circumstance that distorts the psyche of contemporary man and is a reason for the deepening of the “sexual crisis”.
here we arrive to the role of inequality
The idea of “property” goes far beyond the boundaries of “lawful marriage”
KEY
Besides the already mentioned inadequacies of the contemporary psyche – extreme individuality, egoism that has become a cult – the “sexual crisis” is made worse by two characteristics of the psychology of modern man: The idea of “possessing” the married partner; The belief that the two sexes are unequal, that they are of unequal worth in every way, in every sphere, including the sexual sphere.
she identifies this as a core problem
The individualistic property morality of the present day is beginning to seem very obviously paralysing and oppressive. In criticising the quality of sexual relationships modern man is doing far more than rejecting the outdated forms of behaviour of the current moral code
the individualist lonely man!
Under capitalism and the ethic of competition, the triumphant principles of individualism and exclusive private property, grew and destroyed whatever remained of the idea of the community
explanation of the flaws of capitalism (and bourgeois)
the clue to finding this “thread
class struggle as a clue
Shouldn’t we find it now, at this very moment?
She has identified a gap, a lack of effort in identifying what the links between sexual problems the problematic economic structures of society are
The champions of bourgeois individualism say that we ought to destroy all the hypocritical restrictions of the obsolete code of sexual behaviour.
also fundamentally disagrees with them
Thus, progressive efforts to protect women fromviolence succeed in transforming their consciousness of rights but at the sametime focus on poor men while batterers with more resources escape. Poor womenwin greater control over their lives, but at the price of criminalizing the men jntheir community.
class (and race) intersects with the processes of criminalising gbv (punishment/prosecution pillar)
Police are oftencorrupt, unavailable, or uninterested in protecting women from violence, as demon-strated by research in Vanuatu in the South Pacific (Mason 2000: 131-134).
the issue of trusting the patriarchal state
national education is an issue at this moment, let us see if our wise legislators will think sanely about the education of women
relates to wollstonecraft
o that by being founded henceforward on simple and incontestable principles the demands of the citizenesses may always tend toward maintaining the constitution, good morals, and the general welfare.
citizenness! it is the feminine word for citizen
nature and reason.
nature and reason seem central
No body and no individual may exercise authority which does not emanate expressly from the nation.
but why does the nation have the right? what is this referring to?
T o sum up, there is perhaps no 'natural way' for the adult.
is there a difference between the expected and some essential natural way ? besides breathing and organs functioning can anything really be separated form the psychological and sociological forces that 'police' and/or instruct a given technique of the body.
so-called
so called primitive is an important language of questioning at this time (1930s)
It is at this moment that they learn definitively thetechniques of the body that they will retain for the whole of theiradult lives
the key role of adolescence for creating the reality of 'opposite is the rule'. Mauss uses the example of 'so-called primitive countries' where, but not only there, puberty is the cite of divergence of boys and girls. The former delves deeper into education 'where he learns his profession' and the latter 'are at school with their mothers' (p. 80)
The con-stant adaptation to a physical, mechanical or chemical aim (e.g. whenwe drink) is pursued in a series of assembled actions, and assembledfor the individual not by himself alone but by all his education, bythe whole society to which he belongs, in the place he occupies in it
this is how it is all interconnected
"the body and moral and intellectual symbols" p. 76
the latter are felt by the author asactions of a mechanical, physical or physico-chemical order and that theyare pursued with that aim in view
traditional actions of technique
It has to be effective and traditional. There is no technique andno transmission in the absence of tradition
i wonder how Mauss would define tradition in this sense?
beliefs inthe not only physical but also moral, magical and ritual effectivenessof certain actions.
like superstitions?
not a natural way of walking
what is natural can be problematised here, when it comes to the body many movements can become akin to motor skills once muscle memory is built up. While it may have started with an intention, take the example of riding a bike but then becomes a natural way of moving while on a bike once the skill has reached a biological fluency...
a triple consideration instead of a singleconsideration, be it mechanical and physical, like an anatomical andphysiological theory of walking, or on the contrary psychological orsociological. I t is the triple viewpoint, that of the 'total man' that isneeded
the triple consideration: 1. mechanical, physical (biological) 2. psychological 3. sociological/social (?)
actions which have succeeded and which hehas seen successfully performed by people in whom he has confidenceand who have authority over him
enter: the role of authority
I n all theseelements of the art of using the human body, the facts of educationwere dominant. The notion of education could be superimposed onthat of imitation. For there are particular children with very strongimitative faculties, others with very weak ones, but all of them gothrough the same education, such that we can understand the continuityof the concatenations
the notion of education across different imitations that use the body can be superimposed.
Clarification: concatenations refer to the series of connected things
habitus
this Bourdieuan concept was first introduced by Mauss actually
This was an idea I could generalise. Thepositions of the arms and hands while walking form a social idiosyncracy,they are not simply a product of some purely individual, almost com-pletely psychical arrangements and mechanisms. For example: I thinkI can also recognise a girl who has been raised in a convent. In generalshe will walk with her fists closed. And I can still remember my third-form teacher shouting at me : 'Idiot ! why do you walk around the wholetime with your hands flapping wide open?' Thus there exists aneducation in walking, too
like swimming, there is "an education in walking too" p. 72 further examples ensure, that of embodied manners (posture, position of elbows), and running
Miscellaneous'. This is where we have to penetrate. We can be certainthat this is where there are truths to be discovered: first because weknow that we are ignorant, and second because we have a lively senseof the quantity of the facts.
i wonder how much this frames whats to follow?
Mauss
'forefather of classic anthropology'
Sex education in the UK is blighted by inconsistent(if any) provision across authorities and theabsence of a core curriculum. Sex education is notrooted in the concepts of sexual autonomy andsexual engagement. This remains a matter ofconcern and means young people are poorlyequipped or supported for sexual life25
the state of affairs in 2007
typical student
according to who, what gives him the right to use such normative language?
paradoxicall
the author calls this ability of capitalism to open/extend opportunities to more people regardless of privilege paradoxical. But it is unclear how? Especially if he is so opposed to anticapitalists views...
ut globalization has also fallen afoul of ayounger group of critics
differentiation between OG post-war nostalgic anti-capitalists, and the younger group pf critics who come from college campuses and a range of humanities and social science disciplines from which they gain their socialist idealism?
a trilogy of discontentsabout the idea of capitalism, the process ofglobalization, and the behavior ofcorporations.
The three discontents