Types Of Feminism Flashcards

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Radical feminists

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argue patriarchy is the fundamental conflict in society

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What do radical feminists think of men?

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their oppression is direct and personal
-men have a ‘conscious hate for women’

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Where do radical feminists think of oppression of women occur?

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-occurs not only in public sphere of work amd [politics
BUT
-also private sphere of family
-between sexes

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Radical feminists see the …?

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Personal as political

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What do radical feminists mean by personal as political?

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Personal rs between sexes are political because men dominate women through them

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Sexual politics

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Personal rs between sexes are political because men dominate women through them

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Radical feminists’ solution to oppression of women

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-separation
-and all females becoming lesbians is the only solution

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Liberal feminists

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argue that society holds the false belief that women are, by nature, less intellectually and physically capable than men and therfore discriminate against them, preventing their success

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Liberal feminist solution to discrimination

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Strive for sexual equality via legal form.
e.g- Argue that laws and policies against sex dsic discrimination in employment and education can secure equal opportunities for women

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What do liberal feminists reject?

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the idea that biological differences make women less competent or rational than ,em

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Marxist feminists

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see women’s subordination as rooted in capitalism

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Why do Marxist feminists believe that women’s subordination performs a number of important functions for capitalism ?

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The 4 reasons

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What are the 4 reasons and which feminists believe in these?

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Marxists
1= women are a cheap source of labour because they’re paid less than men

2= they have babies and socialise them. so they’re reproducing the next labour force

3= according to Ansley women absorb the anger and frustration from their husbands that would otherwise be directed at their bosses

4= they act as the ‘reserve army of labour’ - as women can be called upon when needed (e.g during war)

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Marxist feminists solution to women’s subordination?

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all women will be liberated when capitalism is overthrown

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Black feminists

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argue that sexism, class oppression and racism are inextricably bound together

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Black feminism recognises

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importance of achieving equality for all women as other forms of feminism (e.f first wave feminism) excluded women based on their social class or race

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Black feminists argue that they suffer

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dual-oppression

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Dual-oppression

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black feminists believe they face this

oppressed because firstly as women and secondly as they’re black

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Difference feminism

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so not see women as a single homogenous group

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Why do difference feminists not see women as a single homogeneous group ?

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they argue that m/c and w/c women, hwite, black, lesbian and hetrosexual women have very different experiences of patriarchy, capitalism and homophobia

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Difference feminits believe that feminist have claimed a …

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‘fake universality for itself

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Define what is meant by difference feminist which state that feminists have claimed a ‘fake universality for itself’

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it claimed to be about all women, but in reality was only about the experiences of white, western, hetrosexual, m/c women

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Difference feminists believe feminism should

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NOT exist as a large, grand theory that explains all women’s lives as it did in the first and second wave of feminism WE NEED DIFFERENT GROUPS

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Why do difference feminists believe we need different groups of feminists ?

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having diff groups does not discredit other types of feminism; it just recognises women have diff. experiences, so they need diff representatives