The Feminist Frame Flashcards
What committments do feminists share with critical theories? (t
Social construction viewpoint
Need for social change and emancipation
What is the most important defining feature of social life? (t)
Gender
How do they think society is structured? (t)
In a patriarchal way. The way we consider things to be successful or logical is filtered through male perspectives and submissives the female perspective.
What are the core feminist issues? (T)
Oppression (Economic, political, social)
Trivilization of women’s concerns (things that are masculine are more important…like rationality over emotionality, competition over relationships. business over family)
Treatment of women’s ways of knowing as deviant and second class (people don’t view emotions well for leadership qualities)
What does feminist theory seek to do in organizations?
Investigates how gender is socially constructed and enacted in organizational contexts.( modes of decision making in meetings, stay at home policies, gender pronouns)
What is the role of communication in organizations?
Communication serves to (re)produce power structures that oppress women (female lawyer example)
What do power structures do to women in organizations?
Devalue womens ways of knowing and communicating
What is gendered work vs gender work?
Gendered: Delegated TO women in a workplace (party for jennifer to organize not hired for)
gender: work CONFIRMING BELIEFS about women’s natural tendencies and abilites (nurse early childhood teacher, secretary)
How would a feminist approach the concept of organizational culture?
Feminists focus on the oppression of women. Seek how values, norms, and basic assumptions serve to favor management.
What are the four feminist theory perspectives?
Liberal, Radical, Postmodern, and Revisionist
What does a liberal feminist think oppression is due to?
What is their basis for liberation?
Oppression: Legal constraints (voting), society’s belief in women’s inferiority (presidents CEOS) organizational structure inequality (lack of promotion for female in military)
Liberation: Social and institutional reform (the system, legal, socially, fight for equal pay, glass ceiling in politics) & removal of discriminatory laws and practices.
What are the basis for oppression and liberation in radical feminism?
Oppression:
Pyschological, not economic costs (females based on patriarchal system, and it will always continue)
Liberation: Destruction of current patriarchal structures (or will always be oppressed and treated as second class)
Separation from Men
creation of cooperative female valued structures
Basis for oppression and liberation in postmodern f eminism?
Oppression: Unified truth perpetuated through the patriarchal system. (Like critical theory it is the way it is, can’t be changed, men have this, females have this and that’s the way it is even if its not right)
Liberation:
Deconstruction (investigating assumptions) of male oriented measuring systems, which illuminates hidden women’s perspectives . (Terminology wwe use values males over females, Effective leaders are powerful, rational, when emotion and gut may make a good leader)
Basis for oppression and liberation in revisionist feminism?
Oppression due to:
Male and female values and stereotypes that guide our behavior everyday. Restricts the choices to us (2 year old pink shirt who is a doctor?
Liberation through?
Reconstructing the world so neither sex is oppressed by commonalities and differences . (boys painting nails)
