Feminism

Question 1

Sex vs gender

Answer 1

Sex is biological and gender is sociocultural construct

Question 2

Core ideologies of feminism

Answer 2

Sex Vs. gender
Patriarchy, capital, Lizum and other social institutions allowed men to oppress women.
The structures of male power over female should be overturned .

Question 3

Different strands of feminism

Answer 3

1. LIBERAL/CLASSICAL/EQUAL RIGHT FEMINISM- equal rights in public sphere/political rights , voting rights.
2. RADICAL FEMINISM- patriarchy is root cause of women’s Misery, personal is political, questioned her article, arrangement of masculinity and femininity, reproductive Role reason for women subjugation , universal sisterhood.
3. SOCIALIST FEMINISM - capitalism and probate property root cause of women’s misery.
4. Black, eco, Marxist, revolutionary , cultural , Mukti cultural , Dalit etc.

Question 4

Liberal feminist political thinkers

Answer 4

Mary Wollstonecraft- vindication of the rights of women,1792
J S. Mills. -subjugation of women, 1869
Rousseau- a discourse on origin of inequality, 1755

Question 5

Radical feminist thinkers

Answer 5

1. Simone de Beauvoir: the second sex-women or not born but made-1949
2. Shaulamith Firestone- The dielectic of sex 1970
3. Kate millet - sexual politics, 1971

Question 6

Socialist feminist thinkers

Answer 6

1. Friedrich Engels- The original family, private property, and state 1884
2. Sheila Rawbatham- women, resistance, revolution and hidden form of history 1943