Feminism Quotes Flashcards
FEMINISM QUOTES
FEMINISM QUOTES
SEX
SEX
What did Sheila Jeffreys (Revolutionary Lesbian Feminist) assert about feminism?
It should only be for ‘womyn-born-womyn’
What is a Simone de Beauvoir quote about becoming a woman?
‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’
What did Sheila Rowbotham (Revolutionary Socialist Feminist) say about sex?
‘Sex is both biological and social’
What has Germaine Greer (Radical Feminist) stated about transgender women?
That they are ‘not women’
GENDER
GENDER
What is a Sheila Rowbotham quote about what gender is?
‘Gender is a cultural construct that limits potential’
What is a famous Simone de Beauvoir quote about what had left women subordinate to men in society?
‘Otherness’
What did Simone de Beauvoir say women were?
The ‘second sex’
What is a Simone de Beauvoir quote about the woman problem?
‘The woman problem has always been a man problem’
What did Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Reformist Socialist Feminist) argue about gender roles?
That they were ‘socially constructed’
What book did first-wave feminist Mary Wollstonecraft write that argued women were as rational as men?
‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ - 1792
What did Kate Millet (Radical Feminist) say about what gender is?
‘Gender is a system of power’
What did bell hooks (Post-modern Feminist) say feminism is?
‘Feminism is a movement to end sexism’
PATRIARCHY
PATRIARCHY
What did Germaine Greer say about men loathing women?
‘Women have very little idea how much men hate them’
What theory did Sheila Rowbotham adopt, which meant she wanted a revolution to destroy both capitalism and the patriarchy?
The Marxist theory of history
What is a Sheila Rowbotham quote about the patriarchy reinforcing gender roles?
‘Patriarchy reinforces gender roles that maintain male dominance’
What is a Sheila Rowbotham quote oppression?
‘Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you’
What did Kate Millet say about sexual revolution and the patriarchy?
‘A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy’
What did Kate Millet say the patriarchy’s greatest psychological weapon was?
‘Perhaps patriarchy’s greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity’
What did bell hooks say black American men wanted?
To assume their ‘proper place as patriarch in the home’
THE PERSONAL IS THE POLITICAL
THE PERSONAL IS THE POLITICAL
What is a Simone de Beauvoir quote about oppression, arguing that the private sphere should be focused on?
‘All oppression creates a state of war’
What is a Sheila Rowbotham quote about values?
‘Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them’
What is a Kate Millet quote about the utopian goal of feminism?
‘The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the ‘revolutionary or utopian’ goal of feminism’
What is a Kate Millet quote about homosexuality?
‘Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality’
What do radical feminists argue about the private sphere?
‘The personal is the political’
INTERSECTIONALITY
INTERSECTIONALITY
What did Diane Abbott say about the abuse she received?
‘I’m abused as a female politician and as a black politician’
What is the stat from the UN One Billion Rising Campaign?
That 1 in 3 women will be raped or beaten in their lifetime
What is a Simone De Beauvoir quote about intersectionality?
‘We must fight for the rights of all marginalised and oppressed groups’
What did bell hooks say feminism was controlled by?
Feminism is controlled by ‘elitist, racist white women’
OTHER
OTHER
What did Simone de Beauvoir say about the idea of innate female characteristics?
They were ‘a myth invented by men to confine women to their oppressed state’
What is a Simone de Beauvoir quote about women being dominated because of their bodies?
‘Her ovaries condemn her to live forever on her knees’
What did difference feminist Carol Gilligan say about sex?
It is one of the most important determinants of human behaviour
What was the Court case which displayed Krenshaw’s Theory of Intersectionality?
DeGraffenreid v General Motors
What is a Kimberle Crenshaw (P-M) quote about sexism and intersectionality?
‘Sexism isn’t a one size fits all phenomenon’
What Act was passed in 1975 which gave women workplace equality?
The Sex Discrimination Act 1975
Why did Charlotte Perkins Gilman oppose capitalism?
She believed it reinforced patriarchal values
What did Sheila Rowbotham believe needed to happen?
A ‘revolution within a revolution’
Who said there is no female mind?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
