Types of Feminism

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  • Types of Feminism
    • Liberal
      • Women's oppression is being gradually overcome
      • Changing attitudes as well as laws
      • They don't like canalization (gendering toys and influencing children)
      • Modern feminism
      • Ann Oakley: principled pragmatism, using practical policies to produce gender equality
    • Marxist
      • The main cause of women oppression is capitalism
      • Women are a 'reserve army' of cheap labour
      • They see the family as a negative as well as linking to the exploitation of the working class
      • Fran Ansley: wives are 'takers of ****' and they soak the frustration of their husbands
    • Radical
      • Society is founded on patriarchy and therefore the key division in society is men vs women
      • Men are seen as the enemy
      • Political Lesbianism: the idea that heterosexual relationships are like 'sleeping with the enemy'
      • Germanin Greer: motherhood isn't valued by society and therefore women should separate themselves from men
    • Difference
      • We cannot generalise women's experience as they are all different
      • Sometimes also known as 'black feminism'
    • Post-structuralist
      • Discourses allows others to define people in a certain way
      • Feminists believe that how some female actions are categorised influences its perception
      • e.g. Pregnancy is seen as an illness and pregnant women are seen as patients when they are, in most cases, completely healthy

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