Key Ideas - Feminism

Question 1

What is DeBeauvoir’s views on the state?

Answer 1

It perpetuates a culture that discourages women from expressing true freedom, and being their ‘authentic self.’

Question 2

Intersectionality is a concept of …

Answer 2

bell hooks

Question 3

Name all the feminist books and their authors

Answer 3

DeBeavoir - ‘The second sex’.

Gilman - ‘Women and economics’.

Rowbotham - ‘Women’s consciousness, men’s world’.

Millet - ‘Sexual politics’.

hooks - ‘Feminism is for everybody’.

Question 4

DeBeavoir was an…

Answer 4

Existentialist.

Question 5

What’s the existentialist term given to the degeneration of a person’s self growth and individual thinking is called…

Answer 5

Bad faith

Question 6

The existentialist name for self actualisation is called…

Answer 6

Becoming your authentic self.

Question 7

Existentialism prioritises the…

Answer 7

Individual experience and exploration.

Question 8

Existentialist see the state as something that…

Answer 8

Strangled the development of the individual, constricting it from becoming authentic as their ideas are not their own.

Question 9

Existentialists say there is only the individual’s …

Answer 9

Own truth.
Complete subjectivism.

Question 10

What does DeBeavoir call the marginalisation and or oppression of women?

Answer 10

‘Othering’

Question 11

Women to DeBeavoir are…
____ by society.

Answer 11

Made by society.
To be a ‘women’ is a social construct that goes beyond the biology.

Question 12

Society to DeBeavoir is something that maintains patriarchy….

Answer 12

Unconsciously in both the public and private sphere.

Question 13

Simmons DeBeavoir is like Mary Wollstonecraft in making the same point.
What is that point.

Answer 13

That women are “complicit in their own subjugation”. - Wollstonecraft.

Women to do check their bad faith - DeBeavoir.

Question 14

DeBeavoir thought that the economy…

Answer 14

Was dominated by men, women were not allowed to be their authentic selves by finding the status as equals in the economy as men are.

Question 15

Gilman made an argument against the application of ______ ________ to capitalism in order to explain…

Answer 15

Social Darwinism

To explain how women are not being as successful and or prosperous in the economy than men.

Question 16

The application of Social Darwinism is called an …

Answer 16

“Evolutionary truth”

Question 17

The domestic servitude of women (according to Gilman) is one of the key reasons men…

Answer 17

Dominate women in the economy, and perpetuate their dependence.

Question 18

Women, according to Millett, should in order to liberate themselves from heterosexual relationships…

Answer 18

Engage when possible in political lesbianism

Question 19

Millett has been discribed as having quasi socialist ideas.
Why?

Answer 19

Because of her suggestion of communion approaches to child rearing

Question 20

Intersectionality is a point made by…

Answer 20

bell hooks

Question 21

bell hooks thought that feminism had two key problems.
What?

Answer 21

• not considering intersectionality.
• Not being inclusive or empathetic to the experiences of men, who must be made allies of.

Question 22

Which thinker is one of the oldest socialists to consider the position and opportunities for, of women under capitalism?

Not Rowbotham

Answer 22

Fredrich Engels was one of the first thinkers to entertain that women are more uniquely oppressed under capitalism.

Question 23

According to Rowbotham, what’s the economy of capitalism’s relationship with women?

Answer 23

Women are seen as cheaper labour and are frequently denied the most available routes to success.

Question 24

Rowbotham criticises Marx how?

Answer 24

Says that the Marxist emphasis of economic relations is not enough to explain women’s oppression under capitalism that’s unique to them.

Revolutions cannot be assumed to automatically liberate women. It requires cultural transformation.

Question 25

Rowbotham views the root of the oppression of women as not capitalism (despite her conviction to ending it being a prerequisite to end patriarchy)

what is it then?

Answer 25

Men oppress women in the home, because its culturally expected of them to.

men must relinquish their higher status in patriarchy as well, become allies.

Question 26

Friedan posited that patriarchy on the cultural level was maintained through “________ __________”

Answer 26

Cultural channels.

These need to be vocally challenged in the market place of ideas.

Question 27

The idea of “Personhood” is associated with which thinker?

Answer 27

Wollstonecraft.