Liss Ch. 1 Flashcards
A form of feminism that focuses on the similarities between men and women and on using the government policies to eliminate barriers that keep women from achieving their potential.
Liberal Feminism
This type of feminism claims that its naive to think that women and men can become equal through attaining legal rights. Therefore, they advocate for separatism.
Radical Feminism
Male-centered ways of thinking.
Androcentric
This type of feminism focuses on sexuality and reproduction as a central place of oppression.
Lesbian Feminism
The idea that sexual preferences are formed through the social ideal of heterosexuality.
Compulsory Heterosexuality
This type of feminism links gender oppression with capitalism, an economic system in which power is constructed through work and production.
Socialist Feminism
This suggests that merit is primarily responsible for accumulating wealth.
Myth of Meritocracy
This type of feminism focuses on the differences between women and men and views women’s inequality as related to a lack of value placed on the unique experiences, perspectives, and qualities of women.
Cultural Feminism
The idea that women and men are fundamentally different because of deep and unchanging properties that are generally due to biology or genetics.
Gender Essentialism
This type of feminism sees women’s inequality as deeply linked to white supremacy.
Women of Color Feminism
The tendency to judge other groups according to the values of one’s own group.
Ethnocentrism
This type of feminism claims that inequality is related to the ways in which the categories of women and man have been constructed, studied, and used to organize society.
Queer Feminism
The idea that people fall into a binary of two distinct sex categories, male and female.
Heteronormativity
A form of feminism that connects women’s inequality to the legacy of colonialism and critiques the belief that women in western countries are the most liberated in the world.
Post-colonial/Transitional Feminism
