Feminism Flashcards
What is intersectionality?
Acceptance that different women have different experiences of patriarchy based on race and income
Give an example of intersectionality caused by the government through the NHS
Black women are four times more likely to die than white women six weeks after giving birth
What is the pay gap between men and women working for the BBC?
9.4%
Who was Neil Parish (tractor enthusiast)?
MP who was caught watching pornography in parliament
What was Angela Rayner accused of by the conservatives?
Intentionally distracting Boris Johnson by crossing and uncrossing her legs during debates
What event happened in 2021 that saw the metropolitan police being accused of institutionalised sexism?
The murder of Sarah Everard
What happened to the six women protesting the death of Sarah Everard during lockdown restrictions?
Their charges were dropped
What did Friedrich Engels say regarding capitalism and the patriarchy?
“The move from matriarchy to patriarchy coincided with the arrival of capitalism”
What is a matriarchy?
Society that is ran by women
Name the four branches of feminism
Liberal
Socialist
Radical
Post Modern
Name three Liberal feminists
Mary Wollstonecraft
Betty Freidan
John Stuart Mill
Name three Socialist feminists
Shelia Rowbotham
Friedrich Engels
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Name two radical feminists
Kate Millet
Germaine Grear
Name a post-modern feminist
bell hooks
Name a difference feminist
Mary Daly
What did Daly say in regards to women?
Differences such as childbearing should be celebrated
When were women given the vote?
1928 through the equal franchise act
What is a quote by Shelia Rowbotham that explains how to remove the patriarchy?
“revolution within a revolution”
What did Gilman say about women and labour?
“women are tools of labour, but so are horses”
What does Gilman suggest will eradicate injustices in the private sphere?
Communal housing
What is the main criticism of other feminist’s from post-moderns?
Criticise other feminists for making women a homogenous group
Give an example of intersectionality in discrimination in 2015?
Nadiya Hussain was attacked online after winning the bake off for being a woman as well as being Muslim and Bangladeshi
State a bell hooks quote surrounding intersectionality
“when women are talked about, the focus tends to be on white women”
What does Kate Millet reject?
traditional marriage
How does Kate Millet reject traditional marriage?
through a sexual revolution
What does Germaine Grear suggest about men’s unconscious desires?
Men have a loathing for women due to normalisation of female sex within society
What did John Stuart Mill write regarding his feminist views?
The Subjection of women in 1869
State a quote by John Stuart Mill
“The legal subordination of one sex to another is wrong in itself”
How many MP’s are female in 2023?
225
