Feminism Thinkers Flashcards
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
To be free, women need economic independence
Gender stereotyping in childhood is wrong
Main argument is that sex and domestic economics when hand-in-hand
For women to survive, they were relying on the sexual assets to please her husband
Through toys and other marketing young girls are forced to conform to a domestic role and motherhood
Believed, economic independence was the only thing that could bring freedom for women
Simone de bouvuour
Socialist development in class trouble when needed to sort societies problems. Not a women’s movement however, then realised that socialist development had not left women better off.
“ when is not born, but rather becomes a woman”
Motherhood is a way of turning women into slaves, as they were forced to focus on femininity, not politics
Women have accepted and internalised that otherNess
Women were not just inferior in the eyes of men, but also that own
She did not think it was beneficial for women to refuse to do anything a man’s way
FeministsS should not reject being a part of the man’s world
Kate millett
The family is the capital of patriarchy
Socialise and gives manpower and denies women power
I’m doing the traditional family was the key to true sexual revolution
The role of women is created by observing hierarchical relationship between mothers and fathers
Patriarchy, granted, the father, total ownership of his wife
Marriage involved, an exchange of women’s domestic service and sexual consent in return for financial support
She proposed a sexual revolution that would bring the institution of patriarchy to an end
Sheila rowbowthman
Women are oppressed, economically, and
Capitalism and sexism are closely linked
Origins of sexism, predate capitalism, and that the institution of marriage, closely resembles feudalism
Wives are contracted to serve the husband
“ Revolution within the revolution”
The only way to destroy this was a radical change in the cultural conditioning
Capitalism oppressed the proletariat and women
Family was both subjecting women to capitalism, and providing a place where men took refuge from alienation under capitalism
bell hooks
Mainstream feminism excludes the concerns of women of colour
Solidarity is important between genders, races and classes
She believed girls are taught that the most important thing is to change herself and her own feelings in hopes of attracting others
Known for her efforts to bring cultural concerns of women of colour into the mainstream feminist movement
She found mainstream movements had focused on white college, educated, middle and upper-class women
She argued, feminists, have not succeeded in creating political solidarity with women of different ethnicities are socio-economic classes
