WGS (Women, Work & Class)

Part I. Joan Acker Class Questions, Feminist Answers

Section 1. Discuss the significance of the following terms.
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How does Acker define the term?
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How does she use The term in her larger argument?
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Give an example from the book to demonstrate how she is using this term.
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What are the implications of the term
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what does it teach you, and how might you use this term outside of the book?

1. Hegemonic Masculinity

2.Means of Provisioning

3.Corporate Nonresponsibility

4. Unpaid Labor/reproductive labor

5.Inequality regimes Short Answer

6.
Joan Acker argues that class is gendered and racialized, and in order to understand
class processes and relationships we must examine how gender and race are always working simultaneously in class relations. Compare two people whose lives were presented in Waging a Living and provide a racialized and gendered analysis of them, utilizing Acker,s concepts of Inequality regimes.

7.Drawing from Acker,s framework of inequality regimes, how does she explain the persistent wage gap across gender and racial lines? Please be sure to include the role of unpaid labor, the means of provisioning, and systematic forms of control(unobtrusive and obtrusive). According to Acker, how is it that persistent wage
gaps are seen as acceptable, if not a natural part of our society?The slide below is available in lecture 10.15.13

Part II.
Ange Marie Hancock,The Politics of Disgust

Section 1. Discuss the significance of the following terms.
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How does Hancock define the term (what does the term mean)?
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How does she use the term in her larger argument?
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Give an example from the book to demonstrate how she is using this term.
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What are the implications of the term
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what does it teach you, and how might you use this term outside of the book?

1. Politics of Disgust

2. Public Identity

3. Culture of Poverty

4. National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO)

5.Lack of Solidarity

Section 2 Short Answer

6. What is the relationship between Hancock’s formulation of ‘the Politics of Disgust’and the
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Public Identity of the Welfare Queen?’ How do both the media and congressional records demonstrate a politics of disgust of the welfare queen?

In this response you should make sure to highlight the key elements that construct each framework. You should focus on her larger argument, and draw from specific examples from the book to demonstrate your grasp of her argument.

7.Hancock concludes, “At the heart of this book is the conviction that our denial to empowered political participation for all Americans regardless of their relationship to the welfare state is downright inhumane” (Hancock, 157). How do the voices of welfare recipients in chapter 5 challenge the inhumane constructions
of welfare dependency that utilized animal analogies, such as the “wolf welfare program”
presented by Representative Barbara Cubin (RWY). According to Hancock, how is this dynamic a challenge to equal democratic participation?

Important Requirements:
You should draw from the texts but you must site quotations. Since we are primarily
drawing from 2 books you should site in text with the authors name and page number e.g.,
(Hancock, 115).
While you are drawing from the text, it is more important for you
to explain what the text
means-so overly quoting without explaining the arguments or concepts in your own
words will not be strong responses.

1. Your comprehension and grasp of the author’s arguments.

2. Your ability to think and utilize the concepts analytically.

3.Your understanding of the larger context in which these author’s works are
engaged.

4.Your ability to articulate the primary issues and elements of the materials we’ve
studies thus far.

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