Feminism Flashcards
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Core Themes
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- Sex/gender as key variable in society and politics
-Society is patriarchal
- Patriarchy must be resisted and overcome
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Sex/gender as key variable in society and politics
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- Biology/socialization -> link between gender and power
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Society is patriarchal
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- Predicated on gender binary (male-female)
- Hierarchical- privileging the male
- Bolstered by a legitimating discourse that “naturalizes” the hierarchical binary
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Hierarchical- privileging the male
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- Women are systematically disadvantaged because of sex/gender
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Bolstered by a legitimating discourse that “naturalizes” the hierarchical binary
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- Formal and informal bases of patriarchy
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Formal and informal bases of patriarchy
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- The “personal is the political”
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Patriarchy must be resisted and overcome
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- Consciousness-raising
- Resistance: mobilizations of various kinds of
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Varieties of Feminism: Two approaches
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- Chronological approach: feminist “waves”
- Conceptual approach
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Conceptual approach
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- Liberal
- Socialist
- Radical
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Varieties of Feminism I: Chronological “waves”
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- First-wave feminisms (pre-World war II)
- Second-wave feminisms (approx. 1960s-70s)
- Third-wave feminisms (approx. 1980s-2010s)
- Fourth-wave feminisms (2010s-)
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First-wave feminisms (pre-World war II)
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- Equal civil rights
- Moral crusades
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Second-wave feminisms (approx. 1960s-70s)
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- Family (challenging domesticity, male supremacy)
- Workplace equality of opportunity
- Sexual politics- pornography, beauty standards, etc.
- Tendency to invoke a universal “sisterhood”
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Third-wave feminisms (approx. 1980s-2010s)
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- Intersectionalities
- Standpoint theory
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Fourth-wave feminisms (2010-)
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- Global mobilizations through internet
- Further development of third-wave themes, e.g. transfeminism
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Varieties of Feminism II: Conceptual Classifications
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- Liberal Feminism
- Socialist Feminism
- Radical Feminism
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Liberal Feminism
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- Rejects essential gender differences (?)
- Attacks barriers to full participation
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Attacks barriers to full participation
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- “direct” and “systemic” discrimination
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Socialist Feminism
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- Patriarchy as product of capitalist relations
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Patriarchy as product of capitalist relations
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- Women as “underclass”
- Women as reserve army of labour
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Radical Feminism
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- Emphasis on misogyny as omnipresent and overwhelming
- Solutions?
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Solutions?
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- Androgyny
- Apartness- women’s-only spaces, etc.
- Revalidate womanhood (“difference” feminism
