Feminism thinkers

Question 1

Simone de Beauvoir key work

Answer 1

‘The Second Sex’ 1949

Question 2

Simone de Beauvoir key concept

Answer 2

The idea of women as ‘other’

Question 3

Simone de Beauvoir key quote

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Simone de Beauvoir human nature

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The biological differences between men and women are irrelevant. Women can compete equally with men.

Question 5

Simone de Beauvoir state

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The state is dominated by white males and therefore reflects and reinforces their dominant position in society

Question 6

Simone de Beauvoir society

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Her extentialism dominated her feminism - Social constraints prevent individuals (not just women) from attaining self realisation and true freedom

Question 7

Simone de Beauvoir economy

Answer 7

Men’s dominance of economic life restricts the life choices open to women

Question 8

Bell hooks key work

Answer 8

‘Feminism is for everybody’ 2000

Question 9

Bell hooks key concept

Answer 9

The idea of intersectionality

Question 10

Bell hooks key quote

Answer 10

‘Feminist thinking helped us unlearn female self hatred - it enabled us to break free of the hold patriachal thinking had on our consciousness’

Question 11

Bell hooks human nature

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Women, in common with men, have multiple identites and therefore experience multiple forms of oppression

Question 12

Bell hooks state

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The state reinforces a culture that prioritises women from expressing their true freedom and identity

Question 13

Bell hooks society

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Society is full of complex relationships between different minorities- in order to resolve social conflict, love between minority cultures should be established

Question 14

Bell hooks economy

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Women living in poverty have problems that middle class women do not face. The liberation of the poor is an economic as well as a social issue.

Question 15

Sheila Rowbotham key work

Answer 15

‘Women’s Consciousness, Men’s World’ 1973

Question 16

Sheila Rowbotham key concept

Answer 16

Liberation of women lay in a socialist future

Question 17

Sheila Rowbotham key quote

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Sheila Rowbotham human nature

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Gender differences are created by men in society - they are not natural

Question 19

Sheila Rowbotham state

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The state is the servant of capitalism

Question 20

Sheila Rowbotham society

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The nature of society is economically determined. Society reflects the dominant position of both capitalists and men in general

Question 21

Sheila Rowbotham economy

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Marxist perspective - women are a low paid reserve army of labour

Question 22

Charlotte Perkins Gilman key work

Answer 22

‘Women and Economics’ 1897

Question 23

Charlotte Perkins Gilman key concept

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The concept of ‘socialisation’ of women from an early age

Question 24

Charlotte Perkins Gilman key quote

Answer 24

‘The labour of women, certaintly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could’

Question 25

Charlotte Perkins Gilman human nature

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Women’s consciousness of the world is created by men

Question 26

Charlotte Perkins Gilman state

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No especially distinctive views on the state

Question 27

Charlotte Perkins Gilman society

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Society has always assigned inferior roles to women. In modern society this no longer has any justification

Question 28

Charlotte Perkins Gilman economy

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The domestic structure of women allowed men to dominate the outside economic world

Question 29

Kate Millet key work

Answer 29

‘Sexual politics’ 1969

Question 30

Kate Millet key concept

Answer 30

Liberation politics and political lesbianism

Question 31

Kate Millet key quote

Answer 31

‘The toil of working class women is more readily accepted as a ‘need’’

Question 32

Kate Millet human nature

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Women are all capable of freeing themselves from male oppression by engaging in lesbian relationships

Question 33

Kate Millet state

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The state is merely the agent of patriachy- it is part of the problem, not the solution

Question 34

Kate Millet society

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Modern society is completely characterised by patriachy which is all pervasive and infests both the private and public spheres

Question 35

Kate Millet economy

Answer 35

A quasi-socialist but not fundamental to her feminism