Feminism Key Terms

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A version of difference feminism that challenges the domination of male culture and promotes female values as more important

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Cultural feminism

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Existential feminism thinker who argued that society defined female characteristics as their roles

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Simone De Beauvoir

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Women and men are biologically and culturally different and this should be celebrated

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Difference feminism

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Argues for the elimination of cultural differences in the pursuit of absolute equality

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Equality feminism

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Everyone having the same life chances in society

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Equality of opportunity

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The belief that biological differences between men and women lead to distinctive differences in their fundamental nature

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Essentialism

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Focussed the feminist movement on the legal and political rights

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First-wave feminism

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The defining of certain roles/qualities and personality based on a person’s sex

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Gender

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Men and women should be treated the same and have full cultural equality within society

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Gender equality

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Women’s roles are pre-determined by society so they are socialized to behave a certain way

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Gender stereotypes

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Early feminist thinker who argued for equality of opportunity and felt that life as a housewife amounted to slavery

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Charlotte Gilman

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PMF who came up with the idea of intersectionality

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bell hooks

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The idea that discrimination against women varies due to race, class and country

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Intersectionality

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Treating everyone the same in the eyes of the law

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Legal equality

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See individualism as the basis of gender equality. Look to reform current systems and believes this will lead to required cultural and social change

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Liberal feminism

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RF who believed that sexual relationships ( and sexuality) as well as society forced the patriarchy

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Kate Millet

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A dislike for and contempt of women

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Misogyny

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Women are treated as an inferior minority who are subservient to men

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Otherness

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A system of power or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it

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Patriarchy

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Women having the same rights to vote and hold political office

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Political equality

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Argues that patriarchy manifests in a different way depending on their race, class etc.

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PMF

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The area of society where relationships are seen as private - centred of domestic life

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Private sphere

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The visible aspects of life - such as the workplace and civil life

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Public sphere

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Believes that the biggest problem facing society is gender inequality and this can only be changed by a revolutionary change

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Radical feminism

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The idea that women are a spare work force that can be called upon when needed

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Reserve army of labour

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SF thinker who believed that capitalism used women and needed women to be oppressed

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Sheila Rowbotham

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Looked to challenge gender roles and challenged the patriarchy

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Second-wave feminism

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The biological difference between men and women

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Sex

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Believes that gender inequality stems from economics and that capitalism creates patriarchy

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Socialism feminism

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The early 20th century campaign to gain votes for women

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Suffrage campaign