Feminism Flashcards
About eliminating the ________ of women to men, aiming to end men’s systematic domination.
Subordination
Women’s rights convention in 1848. They demanded an end to tyranny within the household, being compelled to promise obedience, being denied the right to vote/property, education and unemployment opportunities.
Seneca Falls
Lysistrata 411 BC.
Asserting women’s power by abstaining from having sex to end the war.
A pacifist approach for peace to end the war. Power in politics. Women barricade the public funds building.
Sex strike
Continuing injustice. There are fewer women in the world than should be, and these rates are high in South Asia, North Africa, and China.
Age specific mortality
This is caused by a denial of access to basic/necessary nutrition and health care.
Gender inequality
This was recently outlawed in India.
Sex selective abortion
A liberal feminist who dies giving birth birth and was married to a famous utilitarian.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Wollstonecraft authored this work in 1792, its first edition was about men written in 1790.
The Vindication of the Rights of Women
Wollstonecraft supported this but criticized revolutionaries because their focus was only on:
Revolution, men
Wollstonecraft believed women and men are equals in possessing this:
The capacity to reason
Wollstonecraft believed that women were denied the basic exercise of these, such as in education.
Rational capacities
Wollstonecraft believed women are oppressed by these, including education.
Social institutions
Wollstonecraft believed this is needed to enable women to participate equally and realize their rationality legally.
Reform
Wollstonecraft argued that the differences between women and men are ________, created by institutions.
Artificial/not natural
Wollstonecraft emphasized that women are not sexual beings but:
Human beings
Changing these, such as marriage and education will end in equality. Society is set up to mold women into this:
Institutions, false ideal
Liberal feminists strive to overcome this, in marriage women become property, have to obey, and are denied education and the right to vote.
Overt discrimination
What is the aim for liberal feminists?
To change laws and institutions
What is the goal for liberal feminists?
To equalize opportunities for women and men with an emphasis on political equality
When did women in Canada get the vote? Why?
Towards the end of the 1st world war because they showed that they were just capable of doing jobs that men did while at war
The proportion of the women in this is less than one third in Canada:
The lower house
Going beyond legal and political efforts to culture, to overcome sexist attitudes and beliefs.
Radical/2nd wave feminism
Raising consciousness about women’s emotional nature, and assumptions in the way we think/talk.
Radical/2nd wave feminism
Radical feminists believe that women are subject to these:
Their own internalized harmful attitudes and false beliefs
Radicals emphasize this instead of more qualities between men and women.
Differences
Radicals argue that women are not worse or better, but we have different:
Biological makeups and attitudes
To radicals, this exists in terms of setting the debate. Careers are defined by men.
Male bias
Radicals argue that we need to focus on these:
Basic values
The Air We Breathe and the Structure and Values of American Society were authored by:
Catherine Mackinnon
Mackinnon wrote about male perspectives, concerns, experiences, and the general assumptions that were slanted against the interests of women because:
Rules privilege men
Mackinnon wrote about how women had no role in creating these, however women should not be bound by them if they have no part in creating them.
The rules of the game
Mackinnon explored the idea of whether justice is gendered concept, and if women approach practical reason from a different perspective using this debate:
The justice-care perspective
Mackinnon found that women value this, which is linked to mothering (intuitive, emotional) while men seek this as part of maturing (abstraction, dispassion).
Connectedness, separation
Marriage is a contract for lifelong possession of sexual faculties. Who said it?
Kant
A critique on the male centered account of moral development that children achieve abstract, impartial thinking at a certain age.
Gilligan’s In a Different Voice
What was Gilligan’s claim in In a Different Voice?
Men and boys seek abstract rules
Gilligan found that this is a kind of mathematical perspective for men/boys, which makes them partial to this:
Ethics/morals, justice
Gilligan found that women consider these, in case by case moral reasoning, which makes them partial to this:
Particularities, care
Should you steal the drug to save a life?
The Heinz dilemma
In the Heinz dilemma, the boy suggests:
You should steal the drug because it is needed to save a life
In the Heinz dilemma, the girl suggests:
You should try to reason with the pharmacist, in a more sophisticated, morally mature manner. More detail is needed.
This is needed as a background to virtue.
Justice
This is necessary to protection when women are vulnerable to or at risk of mistreatment.
Affirming rights
These are needed because different voices don’t systematically match men and women. We can take particulars into account.
Universal moral principles
Choosing on non-relevant grounds.
Objectionable discrimination
Rowbotham: this creates capitalism:
Male dominance
What is the primary concern of political philosophy and the 1st virtue of society?
Encouraging people to become good citizens
This is the last resort, and doesn’t need to undermine virtue and care.
Justice
Preferential hiring/admissions policies that allow freedom of occupational choice and equality but can be considered self contradictory.
Affirmative action
Changes in household responsibility are likely to result in these:
Changes in household employment
The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments was based on what document?
The Declaration of Independence
Social feminists argue that women are not free until this is replaced with this:
Capitalism, socialism
Anarchist feminists argue that women are oppressed if this exists:
The state
What is the agent to liberal feminism?
Women
What are the obstacles in liberal feminism?
Legal and institutional discrimination
What is the goal of liberal feminism?
Equality of opportunity
What are the obstacles in radical feminism?
Sexist beliefs and attitudes, male power systems
What is the goal of radical feminism?
Power and respect for differences
