Feminist Theory Flashcards

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Feminist Theory - Liberal - Oakley

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• Equal rights can be achieved through law changes
• Gender equality is on a march of progress: votes for women, equal pay act
• Institutions need to combat sexist lang + attitudes, changing soc, textbooks, role models + remove gender roles

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Feminist Theory - Evaluating Liberal

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• Some campaigns have been successful: GIST, WISE, Votes, Teachers
• Inequalities still exist legally + culturally
• Violence against women continues
- Sarah Evarad - police raped + killed her

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Feminist Theory - Radical - Fireston

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• All soc are patriarchal
• All men benefit from female oppression (unpaid labour + sex)

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Feminist Theory - Radical - Brownmiller

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• The personal is patriarchal
• All personal relationships are based on power
• Women controlled by men in personal + professional relationships
- fear of walking alone at night –> keeps them at home

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Feminist Theory - Radical - Greer - Solution

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• Solution = separatism - women live independently + political lesbianism - sexual orientation is seperate from patriarchal control

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Feminist Theory - Marxist Feminist - Hartmann - Women’s role in capitalist survival

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• Women are oppressed by dual system - patriarchy + capitalism
• Women perform key functions in family for capitalist survival:
- reproduce labour force (socialise kids to accept capitalism)
- Absorb partners anger from alienation at work
- Source of cheap labour - only employed when short staffed

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Feminist Theory - Marxist Feminist - Barrett - Ideology + NF

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• Ideology –> capitalism presents NF as natural despite being neg for women

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Feminist Theory - Difference Feminist - Abbott

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• No universal experience of womanhood - all different
• Other Feminists only discuss white, mc women
• Black Feminists view family as pos –> shields from racism

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Feminist Theory - Evaluating Difference Feminism - Walby + Segal

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• Walby –> all women face same challenges
• Segal –> emphasising difference divides women

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Feminist Theory - Postmodern Feminist - Butler

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• Meaning of womanhood changes for time + place
- no universal understanding
- social Constructs of gender
• phallocentric –> label women by men

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