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Feminism Quotes Flashcards

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FEMINISM QUOTES

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FEMINISM QUOTES

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SEX

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SEX

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What did Sheila Jeffreys (Revolutionary Lesbian Feminist) assert about feminism?

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It should only be for ‘womyn-born-womyn’

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What is a Simone de Beauvoir quote about becoming a woman?

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

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What did Sheila Rowbotham (Revolutionary Socialist Feminist) say about sex?

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‘Sex is both biological and social’

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What has Germaine Greer (Radical Feminist) stated about transgender women?

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That they are ‘not women’

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GENDER

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GENDER

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What is a Sheila Rowbotham quote about what gender is?

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‘Gender is a cultural construct that limits potential’

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What is a famous Simone de Beauvoir quote about what had left women subordinate to men in society?

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‘Otherness’

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What did Simone de Beauvoir say women were?

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The ‘second sex’

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What is a Simone de Beauvoir quote about the woman problem?

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‘The woman problem has always been a man problem’

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What did Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Reformist Socialist Feminist) argue about gender roles?

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That they were ‘socially constructed’

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What book did first-wave feminist Mary Wollstonecraft write that argued women were as rational as men?

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‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ - 1792

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What did Kate Millet (Radical Feminist) say about what gender is?

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‘Gender is a system of power’

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What did bell hooks (Post-modern Feminist) say feminism is?

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‘Feminism is a movement to end sexism’

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PATRIARCHY

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PATRIARCHY

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What did Germaine Greer say about men loathing women?

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‘Women have very little idea how much men hate them’

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What theory did Sheila Rowbotham adopt, which meant she wanted a revolution to destroy both capitalism and the patriarchy?

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The Marxist theory of history

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What is a Sheila Rowbotham quote about the patriarchy reinforcing gender roles?

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‘Patriarchy reinforces gender roles that maintain male dominance’

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What is a Sheila Rowbotham quote oppression?

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‘Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you’

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What did Kate Millet say about sexual revolution and the patriarchy?

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‘A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy’

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What did Kate Millet say the patriarchy’s greatest psychological weapon was?

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‘Perhaps patriarchy’s greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity’

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What did bell hooks say black American men wanted?

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To assume their ‘proper place as patriarch in the home’

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THE PERSONAL IS THE POLITICAL

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THE PERSONAL IS THE POLITICAL

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What is a Simone de Beauvoir quote about oppression, arguing that the private sphere should be focused on?

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‘All oppression creates a state of war’

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What is a Sheila Rowbotham quote about values?

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‘Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them’

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What is a Kate Millet quote about the utopian goal of feminism?

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‘The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the ‘revolutionary or utopian’ goal of feminism’

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What is a Kate Millet quote about homosexuality?

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‘Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality’

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What do radical feminists argue about the private sphere?

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‘The personal is the political’

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INTERSECTIONALITY

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INTERSECTIONALITY

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What did Diane Abbott say about the abuse she received?

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‘I’m abused as a female politician and as a black politician’

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What is the stat from the UN One Billion Rising Campaign?

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That 1 in 3 women will be raped or beaten in their lifetime

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What is a Simone De Beauvoir quote about intersectionality?

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‘We must fight for the rights of all marginalised and oppressed groups’

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What did bell hooks say feminism was controlled by?

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Feminism is controlled by ‘elitist, racist white women’

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OTHER

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OTHER

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What did Simone de Beauvoir say about the idea of innate female characteristics?

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They were ‘a myth invented by men to confine women to their oppressed state’

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What is a Simone de Beauvoir quote about women being dominated because of their bodies?

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‘Her ovaries condemn her to live forever on her knees’

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What did difference feminist Carol Gilligan say about sex?

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It is one of the most important determinants of human behaviour

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What was the Court case which displayed Krenshaw’s Theory of Intersectionality?

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DeGraffenreid v General Motors

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What is a Kimberle Crenshaw (P-M) quote about sexism and intersectionality?

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‘Sexism isn’t a one size fits all phenomenon’

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What Act was passed in 1975 which gave women workplace equality?

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The Sex Discrimination Act 1975

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Why did Charlotte Perkins Gilman oppose capitalism?

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She believed it reinforced patriarchal values

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What did Sheila Rowbotham believe needed to happen?

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A ‘revolution within a revolution’

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Who said there is no female mind?

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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