FEMINISM

Question 1

Give an overview of the four waves on feminism with an example for each?

Answer 1

1st- legal/political rights e.g. suffragette (liberal feminism)
2nd-roles in society e.g. Millett/Beauvoir
3rd- other cultures/class e.g. hookes
4th- online misogyny e.g. ‘me too’

Question 2

Sex 3 features?

Gender 3 features?

Answer 2

• biological
• ‘male’ ‘female’
• same regardless time/culture
• social/cultural differences
• ‘masculine’ ‘feminine’
• exceptions in time/culture

Question 3

What are the 6 features of the patriarchy?

Answer 3

• state
• household
• culture
• sexuality
• paid work
• violence

Question 4

What does the statement ‘personal is political’ mean?

which feminist thinker referred to this?

Answer 4

'private' issues kept women subordinate, the distinction beweep 'private'/'public' sphere were about power- political 
Kate Millet (family)

Question 5

What is equality feminism?

What is difference feminism/essentialism?

Answer 5

men and women are fundamentally the same/differences irrelevant, equally capable of roles in society

differences are innate/natural, equality feminism encourage to reject womanhood and be like a man

Question 6

What are the 5 features of liberal feminism?

what do they reject?
example of thinker ?

Answer 6

• individualism
• equality of opportunity (intersectionality)
• foundational equality (legal/political equality)
• reformist
• discrimination (not oppressed)

‘personal is political’

Betty Friedan, foundational equality

Question 7

What are 4 features of socialist feminism?

Answer 7

• eradication of capitalism (primary source of oppression not patriarchy)
• economic/social equality
• radical/revolutionary
• marriage/family, ‘personal is political’

Question 8

What are the 10 features of the patriarchy?

critical to what type of feminism?

Answer 8

• sex and gender
• family
• otherness
• sexuality
• literature
• beauty
• domestic violence
• rape
• pornography
• reproduction

Question 9

What are the three types of radical feminism?

Answer 9

• equality radical
• difference
• separatist

Question 10

What are the two reasons for post-modern feminism ?

what are the 2 conflicts of post modern feminism?

Answer 10

• diff experiences (intersectionality)
• individual definition, define for themselves

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