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Feminism Key Thinkers Flashcards

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What kind of feminist was Charlotte Perkins Gilman?

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Socialist Feminist

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What did Gilman believe women needed to be free

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economic independance

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How did Gilman believe women were reliant on their husbands

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For women to survive, they were reliant on pleasing their husbands, so that he would financially support his family

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What did Gilman believe was wrong

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Gender stereotyping from childhood

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How does Gilman believe children should be raised?

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Boys and Girls should be socialised the same- no difference in the clothes, toys and activities boys and girls do

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Gilman’s opinion on motherhood

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  • Motherhood should not stop a woman from working

- Suggested communal housing, which would free women from being domestic slaves

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Simone de Beauvoir type of feminist

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Socialist feminist

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de Beauvoir key ideas (2)

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  • Women are taught and socialised into becoming women

- Otherness

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Definition of ‘otherness’

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Otherness-men are the norm; women are the ‘other

  • therefore have a subordinate position in society
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Simone de Beauvoir famous quote

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‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’

Women are taught and socialised to do and be what is perceived to be a ‘woman’

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De Beauvoir analysis of ‘otherness’ (3)

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  • Woman have accepted and internalised their otherness
  • Therefore women were inferior in their own eyes
  • Women needed to first be conscious of their domination before they could struggle against it
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Kate Millet Feminist type

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Radical feminist

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Kate Millet book

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Sexual Politics (1970)

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Kate Millet key ideas (3)

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  • Family is ‘patriarchy’s key institution’
  • Socialisation gives men power and denies women power
  • Patriarchal portrayal of women in art and literature
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Millet view of female oppression

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Female oppression is both political and cultural.

‘the personal is the political’

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Millet’s view of the key to true sexual revolution

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-Undoing the traditional family

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How does Millet regard the institution of family (3)

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  • A mirror of larger society
  • A patriarchal unit within a patriarchal whole
  • Where young girls were taught “their place” by observing the hierarchical relationships
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Millet’s view of the family in regard to socialisation (3)

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  • Family socialised the young into patriarchal attitudes
  • This was further reinforced in all other aspects of society (school, the media)
  • Culture supported masculine authority in all areas of life
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Millet view of women portrayed in art and literature (2)

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  • Patriarchal culture produced works that were degrading to women
  • In literature women were never their own agents, they were commodities silenced by men, who sought to sexually possess them
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Sheila Rowbotham type of feminist

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Socialist feminist

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Rowbotham key ideas (2)

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  • Capitalism and sexism are closely linked

- Women are oppressed economically and culturally

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Rowbotham ideas on the origins of sexism

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-Sexism/ the oppression of women predates capitalism

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Rowbotham belief on achieving sexual liberation (2)

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  • Required a “revolution within the revolution”
  • Only way of destroying both was a radical change in the ‘cultural conditioning’ of humanity regarding child-rearing, homes, laws and the workplace
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Rowbotham belief on how women were oppressed both culturally and economically

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-Women are forced to sell their labour to survive, but also forced to use their labour to support their husbands and children

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bell hooks type of feminist

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Post-modernist

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bell hooks key ideas (3)

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  • Intersectionality
  • Gender boxes/socialisation
  • solidarity between genders, races and classes
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bell hooks view on socialisation

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children are constantly being knocked down to fit into boxes of characteristics that are expected of them

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bell hooks intersectionality (2)

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  • Mainstream feminism excludes the concerns of minority women
  • Historically, women of colour found themselves in a double bind. By supporting the women movement they had to ignore the racial aspect, but in the CRM, they were subjected to the same patriarchal order.
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Betty Friedan key ideas (3)

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  • Women are just as capable and rational as men
  • Oppressive laws and social views must be rejected
  • Women are held back from fulfilling their potential by unfair ideas
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Betty Friedan book

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Feminist Mystique 1963

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How did Friedan want the state to end female oppression

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  • anti-discrimination laws by the fed. government

- Make reforms within the existing structure of society, rather than fundamentally transforming it

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