In this episode, I outline the ways of thinking about hierarchies in society around gender - mainly focusing on labour, family, and femininity.
References:
Bergoffen, D., & Burke, M. (2020). Simone de Beauvoir. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2020). Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2020/entries/beauvoir/ (https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2020/entries/beauvoir/)
Connell, R. W. (1987). Gender and power: Society, the person and sexual politics.
Davis, A. Y. (1983). Women, race & class. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=738888 (https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=738888)
De Beauvoir, S. (1949). The second sex.
Firestone, S. (1970). The dialectic of sex.
Haraway, D. (2013). Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203873106 (https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203873106)
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5 Jul 2020TRANSCRIPT
Are you lonely alone?
Is this the perfect time to talk about loneliness? For those of us with secure incomes, and comfortable homes, maybe there is a sense of solitude now that we are supposed to be socially and physically distancing ourselves from the rest of the world. But there might still be loneliness. Maybe it peeks out only sometimes, alerting you of its presence when you least expect it. Maybe you are away from a support system you carefully set up, or away from a life that lets you read your loneliness as solitude. But is this a feeling that is just yours to ponder over?
Books I have referred to:
Alberti, F. B. (2019). A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion. Oxford University Press, USA.
The Lonely City by Olvia Laing (2016)
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh (2019)
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (2015)
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Mills, C. W. (1959). The promise. The sociological imagination, 3-24. URL: https://sites.middlebury.edu/utopias/files/2013/02/The-Promise.pdf (https://sites.middlebury.edu/utopias/files/2013/02/The-Promise.pdf)
Hostile Architecture: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/nyregion/hostile-architecture-nyc.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/nyregion/hostile-architecture-nyc.html)
27 Jun 2020TRANSCRIPT
Gender & Sex: Biological truths or a matter of perception?
In this episode, I briefly go into the difference between sex and gender and destabilise the idea that sex is something permanent, while gender is flexible. In fact, both are somewhat unstable. Listen in to know more!
Materials referred:
Butler, J. (1993). Bodies that matter: On the discursive limits of “sex.” Routledge.
Delphy, C. (1993). Rethinking sex and gender. Women’s Studies International Forum, 16(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-5395(93)90076-L (https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-5395(93)90076-L)
Fausto-Sterling, A. (2000). Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality.
Haraway, D. (2013). Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203873106 (https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203873106)
Prosser, J. (1998). Second skins: The body narratives of transsexuality. Columbia University Press.
Rosario, V. A. (2004). The Biology of Gender and the Construction of Sex? GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 10(2), 280–287. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10-2-280 (https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10-2-280)
Zimman, L. (2014). The discursive construction of sex: Remaking and reclaiming the gendered body in talk about genitals among trans men. 24.
18 Jun 2020
Emotional Labour & Public Life: "The Managed Heart" Part 2
A summary of the second part of The Managed Heart by Arlie Hochschild.
18 Jun 2020
Emotional Labour & Private Life: "The Managed Heart" Part 1
A summary of the first part of The Managed Heart by Arlie Hochschild.
9 May 2020
Perspectives on Redistribution and Recognition
This audio is about the debate that Nancy Fraser introduces when she makes the distinction between redistribution and recognition. I have tried to provide an outline of her argument, in addition to the responses by Iris Young and Judith Butler. It is a fairly academic outline; it might only be useful to you if you want to understand the theoretical aspects of the argument. Hope it's helpful to you!
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Thinking about hierarchy & gender
Published 18 Jul 2020 · Transcript excerpt
[…] In fact, what has been considered first wave, second wave feminism, and so on, these are simply labels. Labels that are also points of debate. In fact, what are considered to be the first movements have been spearheaded across the world by the privileged, mostly upper middle class white and upper caste women. […]
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