Chapter 7 - Feminist, Anti-Racist, and Postmodern Critiques Flashcards
Our course, thus far, could fairly be encapsulated as followed: ______ _________!
Class Matters
What is the purpose of examining major economic and political worldviews?
Not to discard the analytical value of the paradigms presented thus far, but to recognize their gaps
Feminists draw attention to the fact that women experience a __________ social world than men
different
Women have a greater responsibility for the ______
family
Women are __________ the victims of violence
disproportionately
Women are among the _______ groups in Canadian society
poorest
Women remain significantly _______-______________ in legislatures, cabinets, and in senior levels of public services and business corporations
under-represented
Women experience more adversely the results of ________ to social services
cutbacks
Feminism has never been a single ___________ or ________
philosophy; ideology
There is no single feminist ________ or worldview
paradigm
Feminists are ____________ diverse
demographically
Feminists have diverse ________ __________ about the causes of social problems and the best solutions
theoretical perspectives
What is oppression?
When unjust actions are enacted upon a person because of their group membership
What is social justice?
Equality and equity for the social wellbeing of all members of society, regardless of group membership
The liberation of women cannot come at the expense of the oppression of men, because that’s merely _____________ _______________
oppression redistributed
What are the three points that a global feminist worldview includes?
- Belief in historical inequities between women and men
- Belief in contemporary inequities between women and men
- Belief that equality between women and men ought to be a central goal of society
__% of adults caring for children more than ___ hours a week are women
75%; 30 hours
Unequal sharing of dependent care in the family may be the most persistent barrier to _______ _______
gender equality
What are the five factors that may limit women’s resources during retirement?
- Work in lower-paying sectors
- Longevity
- Part time sporadic work history
- Disproportionate family caring
- Wage gaps
Liberal feminism focuses on equal rights for ________ ___________
equal opportunities
Liberal feminism is not necessarily radically altering existing ______/________ structures
social/economic
Liberal feminism assumes that social change is best achieved through _________ to facilitate achievement of women’s full potential
advocacy
Liberal feminism is criticized for primarily benefiting women who are ______, ______ ________, and who belong to the _______ class
White; highly educated; middle
Socialist feminism assumes that gender inequalities result from _________ ________ systems
oppressive economic
Socialist feminism assumes that social change is best achieved through ___________ and ____________ capitalism
challenging; reforming
Socialist feminism has been criticized for oversimplifying women’s oppression to just ______
labour
What is the purpose of radical feminism?
To achieve social justice for women by eliminating the patriarchy
Radical feminism promotes elimination of hierarchical governments through _________ ________-________
consensus decision-making
According to radical feminism, gender equality can only be achieved by radically, not incrementally, altering all _____–_______ aspects of society
male dominated
What is the main criticism of radical feminism?
By defining patriarchy in terms of biology, it reduces the complex issue of gender inequality and the diverse disadvantages that women experience to a single, far too simplistic explanation: biology
Radical feminism assumes _____ _________
false universalisms
What are false universalisms?
- Commonality of interests/positions among women, 2. All men are oppressors
What is the anti-racist critique?
People of colour have criticized the paradigms and theories for the failure to account for racism
The ideologies of conservatism, liberalism, marxism, and social democracy were developed largely in Europe during a period of history when the population was mainly _______
White
The patriarchy of men of colour cannot be equated with that of _____ ____
White men
The white feminist criticism of the family as a site of oppression is not as appropriate to the experiences of ________ ___ _____
families of colour
From the time of enlightenment, and with the popularization of Darwinian theories of evolution, race became associated with ________ _________ differences
visible biological
What is race?
Race is defined as a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits
What is ethnicity?
Ethnicity is linked with cultural expression and identification
What are the physiological characteristics that were used to identify and/or categorize different “races”
Skin colour, facial features, and brain size
With the development of social darwinian ideas, physiological characteristics were used to rank people of the world in an assumed order of _________ and ________
superiority; inferiority
Race is ________ _________
socially constructed
What is racism?
The belief that human abilities and human value is determined by race; thus, the race deemed as superior has the right to dominate all other races
What are the three key lessons learned from the research on racial health disparities?
- Such inequalities occur for every disease and every disease mechanism
- Race has no genetic bias
- Racial inequalities in health are the direct result of differences between material and social conditions
Black, working class neighbourhoods, during the height of the pandemic had almost ___x higher risk of getting covid, compared to White, wealthy neighbourhoods
40X
Although multiculturalism in and of itself is a positive concept meant to celebrate the richness of diversity in our nation, it can be ________ ______ if multiculturalism leads to the lack of acknowledgement of the _________ of the uniqueness of racialized communities
utterly harmful; heterogeny
Regretably, the multicultural narrative that seems entrenched in Canadian discourse has not _________ whiteness, but it rather constructs the idea of a white Eurocentric Canadian culture and positions other cultures in relation to the _______ _____ _____
decentred; dominant white core
The collection of racial data prior to the pandemic could have led to a more ________ response with the implementation of ______-______ efforts
equitable; community-specific
Cultural racism holds the same sort of untested beliefs and assumptions about a group, but their target is the group’s _______, rather than their physical characteristics
culture
What is institutional racism?
The systematic/structural expression of personally-held racist beliefs. Systemic inequalities based on race in: banking, housing, education, and health care
What is paternalistic racism?
When members of the dominant group intervene ‘for the good’ of the subordinate group
What is colourblind racism?
It aims to ignore race entirely. It assumes that ‘all people are equal’ and that race does not matter
