Feminism (Tilly boo's deck)

Question 1

Name the types of feminism

Answer 1

Radical, Liberal, Social, Post-modern

Question 2

Name a socialist thinker

Answer 2

Charlotte Perkin Gilman, Simone de Beauvoir, Sheila Rowbotham

Question 3

Name a radical thinker

Answer 3

Kate Millet

Question 4

Name a post modern thinker

Answer 4

bell hooks

Question 5

Name a liberal thinker

Question 6

What is Sex ;)

Answer 6

For feminists this is the biological differences between
men and women. They are seen as inevitable.

Question 7

What is gender…

Answer 7

The societal/cultural differences between sexes. According to
feminists, these are not inherent, and are created by
societies.

Question 8

What is patriarchy

Answer 8

Used by feminists to describe a society which is dominated by men political, economically and socially.

Question 9

What is intersectionality

Answer 9

Post-modern idea among feminists that suggests women
have multiple identities as well as their sex and gender.

Question 10

What is otherness

Answer 10

Refers to the position of women in patriarchal society,
treated as separate to society, an inferior minority

Question 11

What is essentialism

Answer 11

A contested idea which refers to the fundamental nature
if the biological differences between me and women.
Some feminists say such differences are essential to an
understanding of the status of women. Other claim it should be irrelevant.

Question 12

Personal is Political

Answer 12

Liberal feminists focus on the public sphere of society,
such as equal pay and conditions in the work place. They argue that the private sphere (home) is outside the
political remit. Radicals, however, argue that all elements
are life are effected by the patriarchy, therefore the
personal IS political.

Question 13

Charlotte Perkins Gilman quote on human nature

Answer 13

“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex.”

Question 14

Charlotte Perkins Gilman quote on economy

Answer 14

“The labour of women in the house, certainly, enables men to
produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way,
women are economic factors in society. But so are horses”

Question 15

Charlotte Perkins Gilman quote on society

Answer 15

“And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.”

Question 16

Simone de Beauvoir quote on human nature

Answer 16

“one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman”
“humanity is male and man defines woman not in relation to herself but as relative to him; she is not regarded as an autonomous being”

Question 17

Simone de Beauvoir quote on society

Answer 17

“Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male’s
superiority”

Question 18

Kate Millet quote on the state

Answer 18

“it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a
number of recognised political
structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression
so continuous”

Question 19

Kate Millet quote on society

Answer 19

“Many women do not recognise themselves as being discriminated
against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their
conditioning”

“Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst
abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and
secure than before”

“when one group rules another, the relationship between the two is
political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period
of time it develops an ideology (e.g. feudalism, racism etc.). All
historical civilisations are patriarchies; their ideology is male
supremacy”

Question 20

Sheila Rowbotham quote on society

Answer 20

“It is only when women start to organize in large numbers that we
become a political force, and begin to move towards the possibility
of a truly democratic society in which every human being can be
brave, responsible, thinking and diligent in the struggle to live at
once freely and unselfishly.”

“the so-called women’s question is a whole-people question”

Question 21

bell hooks quote on human nature

Answer 21

“Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed static entities
then you see that people can change and that there is hope”