People in Radical Feminism

Question 1

Carol Hanisch

Answer 1

“the personal is political”

Question 2

Kate Millet

Answer 2

(1) Defined politics as “power structured relationship.. whereby one group of persons is controlled by another”
(2) “the family is the agent of patriarchy”
(3) consciousness raising: getting women to be aware of their own oppression.

Question 3

Shulamith Firestone

Answer 3

artificial wombs which separates women from their biological function as child-carriers and therefore emancipates them from pregnancy (which is inherently limiting in the economic and social worlds)

Question 4

Simone de Beauvoir

Answer 4

wrote the Second Sex - gender dominates womens lives - they are made other to the social norm of the “male image” - female-ness is therefore seen as a deviation.

Question 5

Andrea Dworkin

Answer 5

militant campaigner against porn and prostitution. Porn causes actual harm (men eroticise domination and abuse of women). All hetero sex=rape -> male domination of women. Advocated lesbianism

Question 6

Ti-Grace Atkinson

Answer 6

“feminism is the theory. lesbianism is the practice”

Question 7

Marilyn Frye

Answer 7

“separation of various sorts or modes from men and male-defined institutions and relationships which operates in male interest and in the maintenance of male privilege.”