14.2-Different types of feminism - Liberal Feminism

Question 1

What does liberal feminism being reformist mean?

Answer 1

Liberal feminists believe that society can be reformed via democratic pressure

Question 2

How are liberal feminists different to radical feminists and social feminists?

Answer 2

Liberal feminists do not believe that there needs to be a revolutionary change in the way state, society and economy is organised

Question 3

What liberal values are liberal feminists influenced by?

Answer 3

Individualism, Foundational equality and equality of opportunity

Question 4

What did first-wave liberal feminist Mary Wollstonecraft argue in her book ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Women’?

Answer 4

Political equality and that women should have the vote

Question 5

What did Mary Wollstonecraft believe political equality would lead to?

Answer 5

Gender equality and legal equality

Question 6

What concept did Friedan emphasise, similarly to de Beauvoir?

Answer 6

Otherness

Question 7

What 3 things did liberal feminists campaign for?

Answer 7

• End to discrimination and inequality in the workplace
• End to outdated cultural attitudes via education
• Changes in the law to facilitate legal equality in all public spheres of society

Question 8

What Act was passed in 1970 which gave women more economic equality?

Answer 8

Equal Pay Act 1970

Question 9

What Act was passed in 1975 which gave women more workplace equality?

Answer 9

The Sex Discrimination Act 1975