Capitalism Racism And Patriarchy

One of the first attempts to destroy inequality in modern times was the feminist movement, which did a lot of good for women, who had been second class citizens for a long time. The systems in place favored men considerably, classifying women as property of their husbands or fathers. Canada’s supreme court once ruled that women were not people in respect to rights, but were people in respect to taxes. This meant that a working woman could be taxed like a man, but had no vote. In today’s laws, if an employer hires a man instead a woman who was more qualified for the job, she could sue the employer for discrimination. This sounds great, but when you think about what this means for the future, you can see that the system still has a preference, but it is now on a different side. But women were primarily fighting for white women’s rights, not all women’s rights, so even in the fight for equality, there was discrimination, which leads to the next issue. Our society has attempted to put an end to racism. In previous times racism included black slavery, the KKK, and the holocaust, but today, most people in north america agree that racism is immoral. Recently, a huge problem in regards to racism has been the treatment of minorities by police officers and the legal system. “Black lives

Women And Domesticity Domestic work and other types of work that is typically associated with women has always been undervalued and overlooked. Many types of work fall under the umbrella of domestic labor, such as: cooking, cleaning, mending, child care, running errands, managing the household, and much more. This type of work is highly undervalued and often ignored. Many of the works that we have looked at in this section highlight how many women felt about the domestic sphere that they were placed in. In this essay I will discuss this point using points from "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "Professions For Women". Both women commented on the domestic sphere for women and what that meant for them.

We have all sat through multiple history classes and learned about slavery, segregation, and the Civil War. We have all seen brutal movies and presentations based on racial injustices and the lack of equality. So often, we forget that these issues are still so present in our community. Slavery is illegal in the United States but other forms of racial profiling, insensitivity, and racism continue to be a recurring social barrier. Racism is still very much alive. The United States is “equal” yet somehow segregated. There isn’t quite a quick fix to this problem. Clearly, this has been an ongoing issue and requires major progression in our personal global

So, in modern day society, if we have “evolved” or “revolted” into equality; why are women still paid less than men in the same jobs? What would Marx and Gilman have to say about the subject?

Many believe that gender roles are the only way for a family to prosper in a society where men provide for the family financially and women keep the house in order. The idea that a family must “have enough money to sustain a certain standard of living before they can decide that one member must stay home to raise the children”(Source C) is factual to a certain extent. There are many more ways to provide for a family and both men and women do not necessarily have to abide with societal roles. Women can succeed outside the house and men can contribute more within the house. However, the main thing that hurts women is they experience “pay gap, occupational segregation, denial of promotions to leadership, glass ceiling in different professions, increased casualization of women workers” and “lower levels of equation and work opportunities”(Source A). Society has created this barrier where women have to battle these disadvantages to escape conforming to gender

We live in a society where the mainstream values white, but not black, men, but not women, rich but not poor; and youth, but not aging. These are the values we live by that have created inequalities, stereotypes, discrimination, and segregation in our society. When individuals believe a certain group (Male, white, middle class, young) is superior, they become empowered and privilege and any other sub-group is inferior, and face discrimination and unequal opportunity. Thus, leading to –isms (racism, sexism, classism, ageism) in institutions, which create patterns of discrimination based on society’s value system. These mainstream values and – ism’s have become structured into existing social institutions, such as policing, educational systems,

“Why did they have to mix their women into everything? Between us and everything we wanted to change in the world they placed a woman: socially, politically, economically. Why goddamnit, why did they insist upon confusing the class struggle with the ass struggle, debasing both us and them-all human motives?” (Ellison 418).

Oppression thrives in America because a majority of its citizens believes forms of oppression such as racism and sexism are relics of the past. What they do not know is that instead of disappearing, racism and sexism have just become so normalized in the United States to the point where people see them as just parts of everyday life. Institution are the rules and establishments put in place to help regulate peoples’ life on a social and global scale. White, straight men have been creating these institutions since America was first being settled. These customs and administrations were forged in ways meant to keep out those who White man deemed inferior all the while making their racist and sexist views the norms. When a society’s norms are made by people who see racism and sexism as natural, then women and people of color have no chance to prosper. While over time some of the overtly racist and sexist ideals of the past are now seen in a negative light, the institutions made by the dominate group still exist and continue to work in ways that keep White men on top (Sensoy, 2012, p.80 ). A society was made in which its people are socialized into believing ideas like women do not need any more right and that anything negative people of color experience is their own fault. By examining how sexism and racism continues to oppress minorities in society, it becomes easier to see, how despite no longer being acknowledged, White male supremacy is not a thing of the past.

Women’s Suffrage For the longest time, women’s role in society was very narrow and set in stone. Women weren’t given the chance to decide life for their own, and there was a very sharp distinction of gender roles. Women were viewed as inferior, weak, and dependant. They were expected to be responsible for the family and maintainance of the house. But as the 19th century began, so did a drastic change in society. Women started voicing their opinions and seeking change. Trying to break away from this ideology called “cult of domesticity” was a lengthy, burdensome, and demanding struggle.

The Chicano movement was a movement that inspired thousands of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans to boldly take a stand against discriminatory oppression. For years, the Chicano movement fought for Mexicans’ rights. However, the movement failed to recognize that its women were an oppressed group that also needed to be heard by

Institutional racism is still prevalent in the United States. Racial groups are both denied or granted certain rights. Although there may no longer be lynch mobs or Jim Crow, there is still rampant racism from New York to Jena, Louisiana. Society should disband its racial conventions in programs such as affirmative action. It should instead adopt a new system based on many more factors than a person’s ethnic background.

The last hundred years have brought the world many valuable things; computers, better sanitation conditions, understandings of diseases, vaccines, surgery, education, and so much more. But there are so many social constructs that have made little progress such as racism, sexism, and homophobia. In reality vaccines and sexism are manmade, a vaccine is a manmade invention and sexism is a manmade idea. Neither would exist without human beings backing the idea that they are necessary. Racism is “prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior (Oxford Dictionary).” Racism over the last hundred years has been directed towards Blacks, Hispanics, and Asian’s. Looking at the past in relation to racism in the United States, reveals that racism is still alive and well in 2015 just as it was in 1915.

Gender, Racism and Class in the movie “Bread and Ross” and “Hammering it out” Fundamentally, gender, racism and class are three controversial social issues that have for a long period triggered heated debate in the American society. In essence, this issues concern the daily lives of American citizen and immigrants disregarding their class, social status, educational level or the position they hold in the society. Therefore, it is imperative that these issues are analyzed comprehensively in order to take an informed stand about the impact they have to the society. This paper, seeks to critically examine how gender, racism and class are addressed in the two movies “Bread and Roses “and ”Hammering it”.

I intend critically to examine, from the standpoint of Marxist theory, the arguments for race, gender and class studies offered by some of their main proponents, assessing their strengths and limitations and demonstrating, in the process, that Marxism is theoretically and politically necessary if the study of class, gender and race is to achieve more than the endless documentation of variations in their relative salience and combined effects in very specific contexts and experiences.

According to women sociologist Martineau, feminist sociology has focused on power relationships and inequalities between men and women.How can the condition faced by women be addressed,(Little, 2014, p .31). Marx’s critique of capitalism and the feminist of patriarchy for example led to very interesting insights into how structures of power and inequality work, but from a point of view that sees only the most revolutionary transformation of society as a solution,(Little, 2014 , p. 32).