To what extent is feminism a single doctrine?
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- To what extent is feminism a single doctrine?
- Redefining the Political
- Liberal
- Object to restrictions in public sphere
- Fear politicising private sphere bc should be a realm of individual thought and freedom
- Socialist
- Confinement of woman to private sphere serves economic interests of capitalism
- Reserve army of labour
- Capitalism needs to be overthrown to break up the public/private divide
- Radical
- 'The personal is the political'
- Much of oppression originates in the family
- Solved through increase in symmetrical families with shared responsibilties
- Or solved through transfer of private life responsibilities to the state e.g. child rearing helped by welfare support and creches at work
- All
- Sexual inequality preserved bc sexual division of labour seen as natural not political
- Public sphere e.g politics, art, media been reserved to men and private sphere e.g. domestic responsibilities to women
- Women excluded from politics
- United in desire to challenge divide between 'public man' and 'private woman' (Elshtain
- Liberal
- Patriarchy
- All
- Advanced theory of 'sexual politics' similar to 'class politics'
- 'Rule by the father' male domination of women
- Form of oppression, but largely ignored in modern conventional thought
- Millet, 'patriarchal govt' is institution where 'half the populace which is female is controlled by that half which is male'
- Agree patriarchy is broad
- Western: have more rights, suffrage, legalisation of abortion
- Developing: Genital mutilation, dowry
- Liberal
- Use term to describe unequal distribution of rights in society
- Wollstonecraft insisted on education
- Rooted in individualism
- Face of patriarchy is underrepresentation of women in senior positions in political and public life
- Economic equality key to all forms of women's liberation
- Mill equal citizenship and rights
- Radical
- In all walks of life, woman are portrayed as inferior to men
- Systematic and institutionalised form of male domination rooted in the family
- Patriarchal values pervade culture, philosophy, morality and religion of society
- Socialist
- Patriarchy operates in tandem with capitalism, gender and class oppression linked
- Engels the 'bourgeois family', men wish to pass on property to sons
- All
- Conclusion
- Fragments united by core beliefs
- Sex and Gender
- Post-Modern
- Whether differences are natural
- Some women are infertile, some people have both male and female characteristics, transgender
- Sex and gender aren't two opposites
- Egalitarian
- Differences are minor, should bear no role in women's position and opportunities
- Androgyny 'personhood' Wollstonecraft
- Women's capacity to bear children does not determine their social position, domestic responsibilities culturally constructed
- Difference
- Social and cultural characteristics reflection of deeper biological differences are important
- Pro-Woman, characteristics such as empathetic have been viewed as weaker and should be celebrated by society
- Cultural feminism e.g. emphasis on women's literature, craft, art and experiences unique to women e.g. menstruation
- Promotes feminity
- Different to E and PM mainstream feminism
- Sex is biological characteristics, gender is roles society ascribes to women and men
- Post-Modern
- Redefining the Political
- Sex and Gender
- Post-Modern
- Whether differences are natural
- Some women are infertile, some people have both male and female characteristics, transgender
- Sex and gender aren't two opposites
- Egalitarian
- Differences are minor, should bear no role in women's position and opportunities
- Androgyny 'personhood' Wollstonecraft
- Women's capacity to bear children does not determine their social position, domestic responsibilities culturally constructed
- Difference
- Social and cultural characteristics reflection of deeper biological differences are important
- Pro-Woman, characteristics such as empathetic have been viewed as weaker and should be celebrated by society
- Cultural feminism e.g. emphasis on women's literature, craft, art and experiences unique to women e.g. menstruation
- Promotes feminity
- Different to E and PM mainstream feminism
- Sex is biological characteristics, gender is roles society ascribes to women and men
- Post-Modern
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