Feminism Flashcards
Feminism
-conflict theory
-power divided by gender
-patriarchal oppression
-malestream
-evolved over time
Waves of feminism
First wave: political based on equal vote
Second wave: social and economic, liberation, WW2, equal pay
Third wave: intersectionality, focus on people ignored by second wave, forced marriage
Fourth wave: digital, sexual abuse, social media
Liberal
Freidan
-using existing system such as legal for change
-education, family, work, equal pay act
-inequality still exists, low pay, no child care and sexual abuse stated Walter
Marxist
-women exploited by both capitalism and men
-Benston stated women were a reserve army of labour
-Ansley stated women were takers of shit
-Delphy and Leonard stated women were exploited through domestic labour and staying at home.
-men control workforce, marriage and sexuality stated Engels
Radical
-patriarchy in all aspects of society
-need to restructure society
-Firestone stated women are biologically disadvantaged through breastfeeding and motherhood
-Millet stated controlled physically and psychologically
-Female separatism, women become lesbian
-media promotes men
Methodology
-critical of male stream research
-rejected objective and scientific
-Oakley, unstructured interviews for women, offer help then needed and have a two way dialogue
Postmodern
3rd wave
-groups of women, class and ethnicity
-liberation means different things to people
-Cixous states language is phallocentric e.g. human
Black
3rd wave
-ethnocentric
-stay that other types of feminism has victim ideology
-Watkins states they have legacy of slavery
-Mizra states they are not passive but they just experience racism in education
Contributions
-evolved to meet new challenges, post modernism
-useful in poverty, crime, religion and media
-new perspective of boys club
Evaluation
-global inequality still remains
-progress in the west
-3rd world still have little rights
-Fragmented, trans women led to different branches of feminism being in conflict
