Feminism

Question 1

Liberal feminism

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Marxist feminism

Answer 2

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