Branches

Question 1

Liberal

Answer 1

reformist
democratic pressure, not revolution
pub sphere

Question 2

Liberal & Wollstonecraft

Answer 2

“A Vindication of the Right of Women”
political equality
- vote will lead to gender and legal equality

Question 3

Liberal & Friedan

Answer 3

“The Feminine Mystique”
started the second wave
highlighted dissatisfaction in pri life
emphasised otherness (Simone de Beauvoir)

Question 4

Socialist

Answer 4

economics lead to gender inequality
capitalism lead to patriarchy
have diff solutions
separate in reformist or revolutionary socialist

Question 5

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Answer 5

humanist but inspired socialism
reformist socialist
capitalism enforce patriarchy
women use sex for financial support from husband (prostitution)
GR are socially constructed
- gender based toys and clothes
wants economic independence

Question 6

Revolutionary Socialist

Answer 6

Engels first to argue economics causes gender inequality and that C causes P
C altered societal structure so women are needed as unpaid workers (reserve army of labour)

Question 7

Sheila Rowbotham

Answer 7

expands Engels’s ideas
- women are paid less / no child care/ worked “like cattle”
men don’t get oppression of women
adapted Marxism maternalism
- women have always been oppressed
- need a “revolution within a revolution”

Question 8

Simone De Beauvoir

Answer 8

consumptive maternalism weakens women’s position

Question 9

Juliet Mitchell

Answer 9

destruction of capitalism won’t be enough to end patriarchy
4 social functions women need to free from
- role in work
- role in childrearing
- socialisation of kids
- societal position as sex objects

Question 10

Radical

Answer 10

both pri and pub sphere need to be addressed
Carol Hinsch came up with “The personal is political”

Question 11

Kate Millett

Answer 11

kids socialised via family and norms reinforced by society
should abolish nuclear family
- replace it with communal living and childrearing
social construct
- men dominate pub
- women have supportive role in pri

Question 12

Firestone (RF)

Answer 12

revolutionary vision of androgenous society
minimise physical gender diff
childbirth is barbaric
- artificial insemination
- tech advance = men given wombs and give birht

Question 13

Charlotte Bunch (RF)

Answer 13

lesbian separatism
women reject homosexuality
live completely separately from patriarchy

Question 14

Andrea Dworkin (RF)

Answer 14

focus on patriarchal nature of pornography
neg on heterosexual rel cause of exploitative nature of patrairchy

Question 15

Germaine Greer (RF)

Answer 15

abandon traditional marriage
cause of male domination
like communal living and childbearing

Question 16

Post Feminist & Paglia

Answer 16

feminist goals achieved
women move on
Paglia
- criticise F for showing women as victims
women need to take responsibility for life and sex

Question 17

Post Modern

Answer 17

reject generalisation of feminist traditions
patriarchy adapts and finds new ways to oppress