Thinkers' ideas

Question 1

Gilman

Answer 1

Women must depend on sex pleasing their husbands to survive economically. Societal pressure - Girls are socialised into becoming mothers from a young age.

Question 2

de Beauvoir

Answer 2

Sex versus gender - Women, despite being equal to men, are socialised to be different. Otherness - Men are perceived as the norm and women the deviant other sex.

Question 3

Millett

Answer 3

Undoing the traditional nuclear family is key to sexual revolution. Portrayal of women in art and literature - These degraded women.

Question 4

Rowbotham

Answer 4

Women are forced to sell labour to survive in a capitalist system. Men take refuge from alienation due to the capitalist economy in the family.

Question 5

bell hooks

Answer 5

Highlighted the concerns of women of colour. Intersectionality - The traditional liberation movement focused on white middle-upper class college-educated women.