feminism

Question 1

liberal feminism main ideas

Answer 1

• gender equality for women can be achieved through gradual changes in society through changes in law, attitudes and policies
• want a cultural change to removed prejudices
• reject ideas that women are less competent due to biological differences and men are less emotional or nurturing due to it

Question 2

radical feminism main ideas

Answer 2

emerged in early 1970s
- women’s main enemy are men and men benefit from patriarchy through unpaid domestic labour and sexual services
- believe that contesting for legal change is unlikely to bring about equality because the system itself is patriarchal and changes in it are always within terms of men
- strategies they believe will allow women to be free from patriarchy: separation (radical reodering in society), consciousness raising (education on patriarchy), political lesbianism

Question 3

marxist feminism main ideas

Answer 3

dismiss liberal feminists new that subordination is merely a product of stereotyping or outdated attitudes and radical feminists view that its a result of patriarchal oppression. Instead it is due to capitalism as women are a reserve army of labour that bring up next generation of workers

Question 4

intersectional feminism main ideas

Answer 4

argue other feminists see women as all the same but postmodernists argue each women has a combination of labels/needs (e.g. a straight m/c woman has different needs to a black w/c bisexual women)