Feminism

Question 1

name the different types of feminists

Answer 1

• radical
  
  • liberal
    
    • socialism
      
      • black/post modern

Question 2

liberal Feminism

Answer 2

Charlotte Gilman - wrote the yellow wallpaper - quote “ there is no female mind. might as well speak “

believes in the ideas of liberalism and the way to destroy the patricachy is to give women political equality and financial freedom of education - basically give women better lives in politics and the patricahy will topple itself

Question 3

radical feminism

Answer 3

Kate millet - wrote Sexual politics

believes in a total upheaval of the status quo is the only way to achieves true feminism. only a radical and rapid change will topple the patricachy. the media is a big player in the patriarchy so that needs to be radical changed also

Question 4

socialist feminists

Answer 4

simone de Beauvoir / Shelia Rowbotham - wrote Dutiful daughters - Beauvoir quote “there would no longer be men and women but workers equal with one another”

both believe that capitalism is the cause of the patriarchy and that only the introduction of socialism will free the woman from the economic shackles of the man. - capitalism makes a woman an economic prisoners of the man

Question 5

black / post modern

Answer 5

bell hooks - lower case - wrote Aint I a woman - women achieve equality at different points

believes - argues that a white woman and rich women will achieve socialism at different points, there can not be one radical all together movement because equality is subjective and it is down to the individual to fight for their own freedoms and feminist equality. - comparable to the ideas of rowbotham that a polertatriate woman is the lowest in society - a black woman is even lower she argues - equality at different points basically