Feminism Flashcards
Liberal feminism
Seeks equal rights
Believes things should be based on talent not gender
Campaign to remove obstacles for women
Originated from Mary Wollstonecraft in 1759
Challenged educational restrictions on women and saw that society encouraged women to be docile and attentive
Sees marraige as legal prostitution
Second wave was the suffragettes
Equal pay act
Sex discrimination act
Laws agains domestic violence and marital rape
Better education - equal opportunity
Marxist feminism
Class is root of female oppression
Men are socialised into exploitative relationship in relation to work and carry this socialisation over to home
The family system characteristic of modern societies benefits capitalism
Women get socialised into unpaid labour and child rearing
Leaving men with lots of time to work and support capitalism
