FEMINISM
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- Created on: 05-10-22 10:48
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- Feminism Theory
- Structural Theory
- Structuralism is an idea based on the assumption that the actions of humans are structured by the social environment.
- Conflict Theory
- There is conflict in society due to the oppression of women by men.
- Believes society is based on inequalities between men and women
- Liberal Feminists
- Liberal feminists aim for equality between the sexists.
- Males are supposed to be masculine and females, feminine.
- LF want to minimise this gap between masculine and feminine e.g. all females and males should be paid the same.
- They argue that slow progression using legislation and social campaigns and changes. is the way forward to achieve equality.
- LF seeks to improve women's positions within existing structures of society,
- Such as equal education and job opportunities, equal pay, freedom from discriminationand bodily autonomy.
- A03
- Liberal feminism has achieved a lot for women; gave women the right to vote in the 1930s/ fought for equal pay in the UK (Equal Pay Act 1970).
- Liberal feminism seeks to resolve legal inequalities between men and women.
- Legal changes do not ensure equality; for example, the gender pay gap still exists despite laws abolishing it.
- Ethnocentric - as it does not consider the oppression of women of colour, WC women, and women belonging to other minority groups.
- Post modernist feminism
- PMF take an interactionist micro perspective and seeks to soften the emphasis on gender differences between men and women
- Women are exploited by many different things in postmodern society because all women are very different and have very different identities.
- AO3
- They recognise diversity between women which the others do not
- Ignore similaries between women
- Too much division which make change more difficult
- Intersectional feminism
- The patriarchy affects women in many different ways depending on race, culture, religion, social class, sexuality, and physical abilities.
- It seeks to examine how different social structures interact affect different women this way, general ideas about oppression and solutions for gender equality are avoided.
- AO3
- IF are likely to resonate with many women if they feel the feminist narrative includes them.
- The rise of IF may make it more difficult to propose solutions for gender inequality as they may not be universally applicable.
- Structural Theory
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