Feminist
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- Created on: 07-05-17 13:45
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- Feminism
- Intro
- Take a critical view of the family as it oppresses women
- Believe that gender inequality is created by society
- Liberal Feminist
- They want equal rights & opportunities for both men and women
- Believe we have had huge progress but we need to make more through social policy changes
- We are getting equality in the family but not quite there
- Criticisms
- Fail to challenge underlying cause of women oppression
- Naive to think that social policies will overcome patriarchy
- Fail to challenge underlying cause of women oppression
- Marxist Feminist
- Women suffer double oppression. Exploited by capitalism and patriarchy.
- Women support capitalism by reproducing the labour force
- Women are an army of cheap labour. women took on the jobs traditionally done by men. On there return women were then let go.
- Criticisms
- Economically deterministic.Focus too much on money/ economic factors
- Radical Feminist
- View men as the enemy. Men benefit from women's unpaid domestic labour and sexual services.
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Men
threaten and abuse women with violence in order to have power over them
- Want Political lesbianism. Women must not sleep with the enemy.
- Women must live a life with out men Heterosexual relationships are oppressive to women
- Family must be abolished by introducing Separatism.
- Critsicms
- Radical Feminist fail to recognise that there has been progress already; jobs, divorce etc.
- Seperatism cannot work bevies the majority of people are not gay. The Nuclear family will continue
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Differences Feminist
- Believe we cannot make generalisations about women's lives and experiences
- Women from different backgrounds will encounter different experiences
- Criticisms
- Difference feminist ignore the fact women may share the same experiences despite background
- Intro
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