Feminism Flashcards
What is Liberal Feminism?
The initial movement of women’s rights, the first wave! The aims of this movement are to promote equal contract, marriage, procreating and property rights. Liberal feminists aim to achieve equality via the legal system.
Name 4 pieces of Legislation regarding rights for women
Representation of the Peoples Act 1919
Equal Pay Act 1970
Sex Discrimination Act 1975
Equality Act 2010
Name two organisations associated with the first wave:
The blue stockings, 1750’s England.
The Suffragettes- campaigning for the women’s vote, Emiline Pankhurt, Emily Wooding Davis.
Second wave feminism began in:
The 1960’s following a period of encouragement to women to return to the domestic domain and ‘femininity’.
Which sphere does the Liberal feminist focus on gaining equality in?
The public sphere!
What is a radical feminist slogan?
The private is political
Example of radical feminist achievement’s in relation to sexual issues:
1974 Free Contraception giving women control of their own fertility!
Roe vs Wade 1973=the legalisation of abortion.
An example of a radical feminist writer:
Germaine Greer: The Female Eunuch! About sexual revolution.
What is a radical policy second wave feminists (in some cases advocate?)
Political lesbianism/ separatism: the only way to resolve inequality of females is to remove male domination by removing the male sex from society!
Prior to 1987 women never made up more than ?% of MP’s
5%
What is the ratio of male to female judges in the Supreme Court?
11:1
Who wrote ‘The vindication of the rights of women’ stressing the rights of women in education among other things?
Mary Wollstonecraft, 18th C
A simple definition of feminism:
A movement attempting to advance the social role of women, operating under two basic beliefs: 1) that women are disadvantaged due to their sex and 2) this disadvantage should be overthrown in favour for equality of all sex’s
What do radical feminists want to target?
Female objectification e.g. In porn, in the home: rape and domestic violence.
Also wish to target women’s role at home!
The sexual division of labour:
Preserves gender inequality as the burden of child rearing continuously falls upon the female parent, requiring her to stay at home, resulting in dependence upon her male partner and under representation in employment, politics etc.
