7. The significance of radical feminism Flashcards
Day care centres =
not adequate for number of working mothers
Political agitation in a new sense =
that the way men treated and regarded women needed to change
New type of ‘sexual politics’
Alliance between campaigns for woman’s issues and those supporting other civil rights problematic =
Civil rights campaigner Frederick Douglas rejected linking woman’s rights with rights for fellow AA in 1868
Black activists in 1960s did not always see a role for women
Protests, writings and meetings against sexism did not take the form of an organised movement (like many of ones considered) =
More of a general attitude
One characteristic element was
‘consciousness raising’
feminists saw as a political activity (although unconventional).
Small groups of women would meet to discuss position of women, sexual relationships etc. making women more aware of the ‘unequal power relationships’
Feminist writer and activist Kate Millett wrote an influential book -
Sexual Politics 1970.
On inequality of opportunity.
View that ‘every avenue of power was in male hands’
Lack of political equality mirrored in
economic equality
Female wages on average 63% of mens in 1956
by the time of 1970s agitation this had fallen to 57% (1973)
No tax relief for children until =
1977
