Feminism Flashcards
What is a version of difference feminism that challenges the domination of male culture?
Cultural feminism
Who is the existential feminist thinker that argued society defined female characteristics and their roles?
De Beauvoir (Simone)
What term describes the belief that women and men are biologically and culturally different and this should be celebrated?
Difference Feminism
What argues for an elimination of cultural differences in the pursuit of absolute equality?
Equality feminism
What does equality of opportunity mean?
Everyone having the same life chances in society
What is the belief that biological differences between men and women lead to distinct differences in their fundamental nature?
Essentialism
What focused the feminist movement on legal and political rights?
First-wave feminism
What is the defining of certain roles/qualities and personality based on a person’s sex?
Gender
What term describes men and women being treated the same and having full cultural equality within society?
Gender equality
What describes women’s roles being pre-determined by society so that they are socialised to behave in a certain way?
Gender stereotypes
Who is the early feminist thinker that argued for equality of opportunity and felt life as a housewife amounted to domestic slavery?
Gilman (Charlotte)
Who is the third-wave/post modern feminist who came up with the idea of ‘intersectionality’ in Feminism?
hooks (bell)
What is the idea that discrimination against women varies due to race, class and country?
Intersectionality
What term describes treating everyone the same in the eyes of the law?
Legal equality
What sees individualism as the basis of gender equality and looks to reform current systems?
Liberal feminism
Who is the radical feminist who believed that sexual relationships and society enforced the patriarchy?
Millett (Kate)
What is the term for a dislike for and contempt of women?
Misogyny
What describes women being treated as an inferior minority who are subordinate to men?
Otherness
What is a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it?
Patriarchy
What term describes women having the same rights to vote and hold political office?
Political equality
What argues that patriarchy manifests in different ways depending on a woman’s race, class, etc.?
Post-modern feminism
What is the area of society where relationships are seen as private – centred on domestic life?
Private sphere
What describes the visible aspects of life, such as the workplace and civic life?
Public sphere
What believes that the biggest problem facing society is gender inequality and this can only be changed by a revolutionary change?
Radical feminism
