LCW Feminism Revisionbook
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- Feminism Strands
- First Wave
- 17th and 18th century
- Mary Wollstonecraft - Vindication of the Rights of Women
- Argued that women were rational beings and capable of self-determination and deserving of liberty, rights and education.
- J.S.Mill and Harriet Taylor - Subjection of Women
- Achievements
- Married Women's Property Act 1870
- The right to vote 1928
- Second Wave
- Economic, political, legal and social inequalities.
- Betty Friedman - The Feminist Mystique
- Socialist Feminism
- Marxist economic theory
- Women's liberation will be the by product of economic and social revolution.
- Friedrich Engles -The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State
- Reject Liberal feminism reformist approach.
- Sexual divisions within capitalism due to the operation of the economy.
- Orthodox nuclear family is an economic unit bound up with male ownership and inheritance of private property.
- Contract between male breadwinner and the housewife of economic maintained in return for sexual services.
- No legal concept of **** within marriage.
- Contract between male breadwinner and the housewife of economic maintained in return for sexual services.
- Women are a 'reserve army of labour' in expansion such as war.
- Marxist economic theory
- Radical Feminism
- 1950's
- Argue that gender divisions are the most important over all other social cleavages including race and class.
- 1950's
- Difference Feminism
- Adrongyny
- Biological sex is irrelevant to people's social and cultural roles.
- Essentialist
- Argues there are essential differences between men and women.
- They believe that biology is destined and should shape social and cultural roles.
- Men are naturally aggressive and competitive.
- Women are naturally caring, nurturing and empathetic.
- They believe that biology is destined and should shape social and cultural roles.
- Lesbian separatism.
- Women should not seek equality with men and celebrate the female traits.
- Argues there are essential differences between men and women.
- Adrongyny
- Feminism
- Public-private split
- Radical feminists
- Reformist or revolutionary
- Post feminists
- Anti-feminist
- Traditional conservatives and fascists
- Gender hierarchy is natural, functional, inevitable and desirable.
- Public-private split
- First Wave
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