Feminism

Question 1

Oakley (liberal)

Answer 1

Sex = biological makeup
Gender = what you socially regard yourself to be

. Seek to promote role models in the family and education

Question 2

Firestone (radical)

Answer 2

Patriarchy = origins of womens patriarchy lie in their biological capacity to care for infants - dependent on males
. Primary and most fundamental part of all inequality/conflict

Question 3

Brownmiller (radical)

Answer 3

Fear of rape is powerful enough to stop women going out alone at night

Question 4

Barret (marxist)

Answer 4

The ideology of familism
. Raises the question “why do women marry into families and suffer oppression”
. Believes its because of our ideology in society from birth that ‘brainwashes’ women to believe that this position is natural and normal

Question 5

Butler (difference)

Answer 5

Poststructuralist feminism: discourses are what causes oppression

. Butler is highly critical of the way that white western MC women have taken over feminism and also the way that they present ‘universal’ image of womanhood