Feminism Flashcards
Liberal
2 ways to progress -
- Laws and policies
- cultural change (change socialisation to get equality)
Oakely
Lib fem
Lib fem like Oakley distinguish between gender and sex
sex - biological
gender - constructed
Counters for lib fem
- rad fem say theyre naïve to think its just those 2 things
- too optimistic
Rad fem
believe 3 things:
- patriarchy is universal
- Patriarchy is primary form of inequality
- all men oppress women
Rich
Rad fem
Men force women into compulsory heterosexuality
Rad fem ways to change
- separatism (Greer)
- political lesbianism
- Consciousness raising
Counter of rad fem
- Sommerville - Seperatism hard due to attraction
- Women are more free
- women are violent to men (CSEW - 5% men DV, 7.3% gyal)
Marx fem
women have 3 roles -
- reserve army of labour
- Women reproduce work force
- women absorb anger (Ansley - women are takers of shit.)
Barrett - ideology of familism
Ideology keeps women down, e.g. they marry into oppression as family is normal.
need to overthrow capatlism and familism to stop womens opression
Evaluation of marx fem
- theres still oppression in communist societies YOUU DICKHEAD
Dual system feminisim
Joins economy and partirachy - THIS IS THE SAME AS MARXIST COPYCATS!
Hartman - economy and patriarch are intertwinned
Difference feminism
marx, rad and lib are all essentialist. in that the assume all women are the same
ignore black girls and that
Post structualist feminism
Butler and Scott - Post Struc is focused on discourses and power and knowledge.
By defining pregnant as a medical disease and healthy women as ‘patients’ - medical discourse empowers doctors and disempowers women.
Counter for differnet feminism
Walby - there are similatirites for all women faced with patriarchy
counter for post struct
Segal - oppression is caused by inequality not discourses
