Feminist key thinker views

Question 1

Simone De Beauvoir strand = ?

Answer 1

Liberal feminist

Question 2

5 key thinkers = ?

Answer 2

-Simone De Beauvoir
-Bell Hooks
-Sheila Rowbotham
-Charlotte Perkins Gilman
-Kate Millet

Question 3

Bell Hooks strand = ?

Answer 3

Post modern feminist

Question 4

Sheila Rowbotham strand = ?

Answer 4

Socialist feminist

Question 5

Kate Millet strand = ?

Answer 5

Radical feminist

Question 6

Charlotte Perkins Gilman strand = ?

Answer 6

Socialist feminist

Question 7

Simone de Beauvoir view on human nature?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Simone de Beauvoir view on the state?

Answer 8

The state has reinforced a culture that has prevented women from expressing their true freedom and identity.

Question 9

Simone de Beauvoir view on society?

Answer 9

Simone de Beauvoir’s existentialism dominated her feminism. social constraints prevent individuals, not just women, from attaining self realisation and true freedom.

Question 10

Simone de Beauvoir view on the economy?

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Bell Hooks view on human nature?

Answer 11

Women along with men have multiple identities and thus we experience multiple forms of oppression.

Question 12

Bell Hooks view on the state?

Answer 12

The state is dominated by white males and thus reflects and reinforces their dominant position within society and the state.

Question 13

Bell Hooks view on Society?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Bell Hooks view on the economy?

Answer 14

Women who live in poverty face issues that middle class women do not face. the liberation of the poor therefore is an economic as well as social reason.

Question 15

What is the main theme of Bell Hook’s views?

Answer 15

Intersectionality

Question 16

Intersectionality = ?

Answer 16

The many different ways each woman experiences discrimination

Question 17

Forms of intersectionality discrimination = ?

Answer 17

Money, Class, LGBTQ, Trans rights, minority, culture, religion, status, Job etc.

Question 18

Sheila Rowbotham view on human nature?

Answer 18

Women’s consciousness of the world is created by men.

Question 19

Sheila Rowbotham view on the state?

Answer 19

The state is a servant of capitalism.

Question 20

Sheila Rowbotham view on society?

Answer 20

The nature of society is economically determined, basicilly societal issues are dominated by the economy. Society reflects the dominate position of both capitalists and men in general.

Question 21

Sheila Rowbotham view on the economy?

Answer 21

Rowbotham has a marxist perspective on the economy, Women are a low paid reserve army of labour.

Question 22

Charlotte Perkins Gilman view on human nature?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Charlotte Perkins Gilman view on the state?

Answer 23

Gilman had no especially distinctive views on the state

Question 24

Charlotte Perkins Gilman view on society?

Answer 24

Society has always assigned inferior roles to women. this has no justification in a modern society.

Question 25

Charlotte Perkins Gilman view on the economy?

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Kate Millet view on human nature?

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Kate Millet view on the state?

Answer 27

The state is merely an agent of patriarchy. it is part of the problem but not part of the solution.

Question 28

Kate Millet view on society?

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Kate Millet view on the economy?

Answer 29

Millet is a quasi-socialist however this isn’t central to her beliefs about feminism.