14.2-Feminism-Radical Feminism

Question 1

What were radical feminist ideas a rebuttal of?

Answer 1

Liberal feminist ideas

Question 2

What is a radical feminist quote about focusing on the private sphere as well as the public sphere?

Answer 2

‘the personal is the political’

Question 3

What did Andrew Vincent describe radical feminism as?

Answer 3

‘A jumble of incomprehensible views and intellectual influences’

Question 4

What Kate Millet book took a psychoanalytical approach to feminism?

Answer 4

Sexual politics - 1970

Question 5

What was Millet’s solution to ending the socialising of children?

Answer 5

The abolition of the nuclear family

Question 6

What did Charlotte Bunch argue about the nuclear family??

Answer 6

That the nuclear family should be abolished and replaced by lesbian communities

Question 7

What did Germaine Greer argue about the patriarchy?

Answer 7

It had socialised women to view their sexual desires as unfeminine and to be embarrassed about their bodies

Question 8

What did Germaine Greer argue for?

Answer 8

Sexual liberation and the abandonment of traditional marriage