feminism 2

Question 1

what did Mary Wollstonecraft argue in A Vindication of the Rights of Women?

Answer 1

women ought to have an education , claiming that women are essential to the nation because they educate its children and because they could be “companions” to their husbands, rather than mere wives

Question 2

When was A Vindication of the Rights of Women published?

Answer 2

1792

Question 3

what did the second wave of feminism achieve?

Answer 3

wide, sweeping legal reforms as well as more wider ranging contraception

Question 4

what did the Women’s Liberation Movement engage in?

Answer 4

consciousness raising

Question 5

what was the third wave of feminism centred around?

Answer 5

micro politics - allowing women to define feminism for themselves

Question 6

what was the fourth wave of feminism centred around?

Answer 6

internet tools

Question 7

what are some examples of internet led feminist campaigns?

Answer 7

me too, everyday sexism

Question 8

how can second wave feminism be criticised?

Answer 8

white, middle class women centred - at the same time, women of colour were at risk for state sanctioned sterilisations

Question 9

what are the 3 principle claims of standpoint theory?

Answer 9

(1) Knowledge is socially situated
(2) Marginalized groups are socially situated in ways that make it more possible for them to be aware of things and ask questions than it is for the non-marginalized
(3) Research, particularly that focused on power relations, should begin with the lives of the marginalized

Question 10

what is a criticism of liberal feminism?

Answer 10

encouraged the ‘metamorphosis’ of women into men

Question 11

how were consciousness raising groups so effective?

Answer 11

allowed women to recognise that their individual problems actually had a structural basis

Question 12

what is the radical feminist perspective on prostitution?

Answer 12

prostitution continually affirms and reinforces patriarchal definitions of women as having a primary function to serve men sexually
it also is a heavily class and race-based profession

Question 13

what is the radical feminist perspective on pornography?

Answer 13

charge that the production of pornography entails physical, psychological, and/or economiccoercionof the women who perform and model in it. This is said to be true even when the women are presented as enjoying themselves, fosters rape myths

Question 14

how can radical feminism be criticised?

Answer 14

often trans-exclusionary

Question 15

in what year did Engels write about the plight of women under the capitalist system?

Answer 15

1884

Question 16

how does Engels relate the social phenomena associated with female sexual purity to capitalism?

Answer 16

being due to men trying to ensure their inheritance is only passed onto their offspring

Question 17

what do some Marxist feminists advocate?

Answer 17

women to get paid for their labour, thus moving them into the public sphere

Question 18

How does Federici, a Marxist feminist, criticise women’s involvement in the labour market?

Answer 18

“double day”

Question 19

what idea of Marx’s do socialist feminists reject?

Answer 19

Rejects Marx’s opinion that once capitalism is gone, gender subordination will collapse

Question 20

what is the basis of psychoanalytic feminism?

Answer 20

gender inequalitycomes from early childhood experiences, which lead men to believe themselves to bemasculine, and women to believe themselvesfeminine

Question 21

what is the postmodern feminist goal?

Answer 21

to destabilize thepatriarchalnorms entrenched in society that have led to gender inequality

Question 22

how do post modernists believe human experience is shaped? (Frug)

Answer 22

through discourse

Question 23

why do post modern feminists reject universal truths for women?

Answer 23

as it can minimise individual experience

Question 24

why do some feminists dislike postmodern feminism?

Answer 24

Some feminists believe post-modern feminism undermines the attacks on patriarchy they are trying to fight for

Question 25

what concepts do existentialist feminists emphasise? (3)

Answer 25

freedom, interpersonal relationships, and the embodied experience

Question 26

what factors do existentialist feminists believe limit change? (2)

Answer 26

self-deception and the anxiety caused by the possibility of change can limit it

Question 27

what key quote by Simone de Beavouir is used to describe the sex/gender distinction?

Answer 27

“One is not born but becomes a woman”

Question 28

who is a key advocate for black feminism?

Answer 28

bell hooks

Question 29

why did women getting the vote have little affect for black women?

Answer 29

white women voted like their husbands and fathers

Question 30

what percentage of white women voted for trump in 2016?

Answer 30

53%

Question 31

what percentage of black women voted for trump in 2016?

Answer 31

4%

Question 32

how did the civil rights movement also fail black women?

Answer 32

The black movement itself defined freedom as participating in the current system, which still oppresses women

Question 33

what does hooks highlight to illustrate the difference in how white and black women were treated by feminism?

Answer 33

Whilst white women were dismissing the role of housewife, black women were celebrated for their role

Question 34

what does hooks highlight to illustrate the difference in how white and black women were treated within society?

Answer 34

Whilst women were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, black women were fighting to stop lynchings in their communities