The feminist perspective
- Created by: annagaskell
- Created on: 21-04-19 13:39
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- Feminist perspective
- first wave feminism
- suffragette movement- 1918- Marie stopes campaigned for birth control rights and clinic
- focused on raising womens consciousness for equality and gaining equality in voting and property
- suffragette movement- 1918- Marie stopes campaigned for birth control rights and clinic
- macro theory
- second wave feminism
- women felt annoyed after returning to mother/housewife role after WW2
- focused on legal equality in the workplace and contraceptive rights
- new academic feminist writers emerged (Marxist, liberal, radical)
- focused on legal equality in the workplace and contraceptive rights
- simone de beauvoire
- women felt annoyed after returning to mother/housewife role after WW2
- Third wave feminism
- since 90's- deals with the backlash of feminism- its criticisms, weaknesses
- argued second wave feminists over generalised, false universality
- explained the experience of white western middle class women
- argued second wave feminists over generalised, false universality
- since 90's- deals with the backlash of feminism- its criticisms, weaknesses
- liberal feminism
- inequality due to gender socialisation
- ann oakley
- end gender socialisation, gender neutral backgrounds, legal changes
- Marxist feminism
- fran ansley
- inequality due to capitalism
- role of expressive leader prevents women getting higher status jobs
- abolish capitalism
- radical feminism
- shulamith firestone and laura purdy
- womens biology and men
- baby strike, political lesbianism, seperatism
- difference feminism
- critique of modern feminism that suggests we must consider the experience of and cause of oppression for different women
- post structuralist feminism
- consider discourses ( ways of speaking, thinking) and give power to those it defines
- eg/ pregnancy defined as medical condition- disempowers women
- no fixed definition
- west- defined by discourses of media
- Saudi arabia- defined by Islamic discourse
- evaluation
- walby- criticises- important similarities among women- patriachy
- butler- diversity of discourses legitimises struggles
- evaluation
- anti feminism
- oppose womens equality believe liberation has had a detrimental effect on society
- resulted in inc divorce, crime, teenage pregnancy, homosexuality, lessens authority of males
- masculinism
- men are disadvantaged and discriminated against
- defend political, economic and social rights. mens rights movement
- eg/ violence against men taken less seriously, child custody, inc suicide rate, female norms unacceptable, prostate cancer funding lower than breast cancer
- anti feminism
- first wave feminism
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