Feminism/Environmentalism

Question 1

What is feminism?

Answer 1

An ideology that focuses on the position of women in society

Question 2

What is the main idea of feminism?

Answer 2

women are disadvantaged in society and lack political power; the obstacle is ‘patriarchy’ (the rule of ‘fathers’ – i.e. men)

Question 3

What are the types of feminism?

Answer 3

Liberal
Socialist
Radical

Question 4

What do Liberal feminists believe that women should have?

Answer 4

Equal legal and political rights

Question 5

What do Liberal feminists believe about women in the workforce?

Answer 5

Women should be able to work or hold public office, but they do not insist on it

Question 6

What do Liberal feminists believe about the differences between women and men?

Answer 6

women and men are naturally different in certain ways eg. women tend to be better childcare providers; men tend to be better at physical labour, but that these differences do not justify unequal laws, even if they may mean different choices will be freely made (on average) between genders

Question 7

What do Liberal feminists believe about the family unit?

Answer 7

In favour of it, with wives treated as equals by husbands

Question 8

What do reform liberal feminists believe the state should do?

Answer 8

Correct abuses
Employment equity programs
Cultural change
Equality of opportunity through gov

Question 9

What are the divisions between liberal and radical feminists?

Answer 9

Differences between genders (social or genetic)
Abortion
Gender ideology

Question 10

What is the view of the socialist feminist?

Answer 10

women are enslaved by men (are men’s property) in the way the proletariat is enslaved by the capitalist class

Question 11

What do socialist feminists believe is the role of socialism?

Answer 11

socialism will free women from household duties as wealth increases; they will be seen as valuable additions to the workforce; only socialism will destroy patriarchy by creating equality of outcome for the genders

Question 12

What do radical feminists believe in?

Answer 12

Embedded patriarchy

Question 13

What is embedded patriarchy?

Answer 13

The idea that women’s oppression is the fundamental form of all oppression

It is deep within ideology, culture, religion, history, politics (and some would say biology) and needs to be defeated in total with some harsh methods

Question 14

What do radical feminists believe men control, and how do they discriminate against women?

Answer 14

Men control money, the family, and all political power

They discriminate against women and attack them through things like rape and pornography

Question 15

What are some solutions for the radical feminist?

Answer 15

Abolish the patriarchal system
Abolish the traditional family
Free women from being child-bearers
Artificial insemination, abortion, and lesbianism should be encouraged
Establish communes of women
Destroy western capitalist systems

Question 16

What is environmentalism?

Answer 16

Sees the environment as paramount

Question 17

What is the view of conservative environmentalists?

Answer 17

Wish to preserve the environment; do not want all resources to be fair game for the market economy

Question 18

What is the main idea of conservative environmentalists?

Answer 18

If we take care of the environment better we will have resources for future growth

Question 19

What do conservative environmentalists support?

Answer 19

Recycling
Replanting
Some government regulation

Question 20

What is the main idea of reform liberal environmentalists?

Answer 20

we must take care of the environment for our own health; strong government intervention is often needed to do so

Question 21

What is an example of tragedy of the commons?

Answer 21

Everyone pollutes the air because we rationalize that our polluting alone causes the costs to be less than the benefits of polluting: the problem is, when everyone does this, the costs do outweigh the benefits

Question 22

What do reform liberal environmentalists think we should do?

Answer 22

Avoid tragedy of the commons through governments that can strongly regulate the environment and punish offenders of ‘free market environmentalism’ which argues that more natural resources should be made private so people will look after them properly

Question 23

What are deep ecology environmentalists?

Answer 23

Extreme environmentalists

Question 24

What do deep ecology environmentalists believe?

Answer 24

Human welfare ecology
The environment is an end in itself
We have no right to exploit the enviro
Anti-materialistic
Animal rights/liberation
Rain forest preservation
Organic foods
Vegetarianism