Marxism and Feminism

Question 1

Marxist analysis pinpoints the root of social conflict to

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the unequal distribution of wealth in society.

Question 2

Bourgeoisie

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Capitalist class who owns most of society’s wealth.

Question 3

The workers, who can sell their own labour.

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Proletariat

Question 4

Ideology

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refers to common-sense systems of belief belonging to any class or social group; often perceived as natural. “Just the way things are”.

Question 5

Marx focused on base while Gramsci focused on

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superstructure

Question 6

Superstructure

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The ideology producing institutions.

Question 7

Base

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The economic foundation of society.

Question 8

Hegemony requires that

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ideologies be understood as inevitable, natural.

Question 9

How can hegemony be actively won and secured?

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Through coercion or consent.

Question 10

5 Feminist Frameworks

Answer 10

Liberal Feminism
Socialist Feminism
Radical Feminism
Psychoanalytic Feminism
Cultural Feminism

Question 11

Reason & Emotion

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Liberal Feminism

Question 12

Public & Private

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Socialist Feminism

Question 13

Nature & Culture

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Radical Feminism

Question 14

Subject & Object

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Psychoanalytic Feminism

Question 15

Mind & Body

Answer 15

Cultural Feminism

Question 16

Liberal feminism argues that

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women are rational beings with a right to participate and contribute to public life.

Question 17

Socialist feminism critiqued

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women’s economic dependance fostered by gendered division of labour as well as the benefits to capitalism secured by women’s place in “private sphere”.

Question 18

Radical feminism is critical of

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male stream social, political, academic, and cultural institutions. Male dominated culture has done violence to women. A solution for some is lesbian separatism.

Question 19

Psychoanalytic feminism examines

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assumptions set forth in psychoanalytic theory and its treatment of girls’ development as less worthy of study. Psychoanalytic feminism is a theory to include girls/women’s experiences.

Question 20

Cultural feminism critiques

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the devaluation of women through association with the “body”. Women are relegated to work in roles related to child bearing and caring because of their association with only the body.