Gender Studies MA

Pateman, Carole "Feminist Critiques of the Public/Private Dichotomy" in  The Disorder of Women: Democracy, Feminism and Political Theory . Stanford University Press: California. 1989 118-133 "Benn and Gaus’s account assumes that the reality of our social life is more or less adequately captured in liberal conceptions. They do not recognize that ‘liberalism’ is patriarchal-liberalism and that the separation and opposition of the public and private spheres is an unequal opposition between women and men." p.120 "One reason why the exclusion [of women] goes unnoticed is that the separation of the private and public is presented in liberal theory as if it applied to all individuals in the same way. It is often claimed - by anti-feminists today, but by feminists in the nineteenth century, most of whom accepted the doctrine of ‘separate spheres’- that the two spheres are separate, but equally important and valuable. The way in which women and men are differentiall...

Federici, Silvia. 'Reproduction and feminist struggle in the new international devision of labor (1999)' in Revolution at Point Zero : Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle , PM Press, 2012 "In this context, my first objective is to show that the globalization of the world economy has caused a major crisis in the social reproduction of populations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and that a new international division of labor has been built on this crisis that harnesses the labor of women from these regions for the reproduction of the “metropolitan” workforce." p.66 The New Economic Division of Labour - when multinationals relocated their labour force to the global south because they were able to pay workers less and have them work in worse conditions. We could intervene with the topic of surrogacy - rather than the traditional textile or electronic industry, the reproductive industry also thrives in the Free Trade Zones. "the only work and eco...