Types Of Feminism

Question 1

Radical feminists

Answer 1

argue patriarchy is the fundamental conflict in society

Question 2

What do radical feminists think of men?

Answer 2

their oppression is direct and personal
-men have a ‘conscious hate for women’

Question 3

Where do radical feminists think of oppression of women occur?

Answer 3

-occurs not only in public sphere of work amd [politics
BUT
-also private sphere of family
-between sexes

Question 4

Radical feminists see the …?

Answer 4

Personal as political

Question 5

What do radical feminists mean by personal as political?

Answer 5

Personal rs between sexes are political because men dominate women through them

Question 6

Sexual politics

Answer 6

Personal rs between sexes are political because men dominate women through them

Question 7

Radical feminists’ solution to oppression of women

Answer 7

-separation
-and all females becoming lesbians is the only solution

Question 8

Liberal feminists

Answer 8

argue that society holds the false belief that women are, by nature, less intellectually and physically capable than men and therfore discriminate against them, preventing their success

Question 9

Liberal feminist solution to discrimination

Answer 9

Strive for sexual equality via legal form.
e.g- Argue that laws and policies against sex dsic discrimination in employment and education can secure equal opportunities for women

Question 10

What do liberal feminists reject?

Answer 10

the idea that biological differences make women less competent or rational than ,em

Question 11

Marxist feminists

Answer 11

see women’s subordination as rooted in capitalism

Question 12

Why do Marxist feminists believe that women’s subordination performs a number of important functions for capitalism ?

Answer 12

The 4 reasons

Question 13

What are the 4 reasons and which feminists believe in these?

Answer 13

Marxists
1= women are a cheap source of labour because they’re paid less than men

2= they have babies and socialise them. so they’re reproducing the next labour force

3= according to Ansley women absorb the anger and frustration from their husbands that would otherwise be directed at their bosses

4= they act as the ‘reserve army of labour’ - as women can be called upon when needed (e.g during war)

Question 14

Marxist feminists solution to women’s subordination?

Answer 14

all women will be liberated when capitalism is overthrown

Question 15

Black feminists

Answer 15

argue that sexism, class oppression and racism are inextricably bound together

Question 16

Black feminism recognises

Answer 16

importance of achieving equality for all women as other forms of feminism (e.f first wave feminism) excluded women based on their social class or race

Question 17

Black feminists argue that they suffer

Answer 17

dual-oppression

Question 18

Dual-oppression

Answer 18

black feminists believe they face this

oppressed because firstly as women and secondly as they’re black

Question 19

Difference feminism

Answer 19

so not see women as a single homogenous group

Question 20

Why do difference feminists not see women as a single homogeneous group ?

Answer 20

they argue that m/c and w/c women, hwite, black, lesbian and hetrosexual women have very different experiences of patriarchy, capitalism and homophobia

Question 21

Difference feminits believe that feminist have claimed a …

Answer 21

‘fake universality for itself

Question 22

Define what is meant by difference feminist which state that feminists have claimed a ‘fake universality for itself’

Answer 22

it claimed to be about all women, but in reality was only about the experiences of white, western, hetrosexual, m/c women

Question 23

Difference feminists believe feminism should

Answer 23

NOT exist as a large, grand theory that explains all women’s lives as it did in the first and second wave of feminism WE NEED DIFFERENT GROUPS

Question 24

Why do difference feminists believe we need different groups of feminists ?

Answer 24

having diff groups does not discredit other types of feminism; it just recognises women have diff. experiences, so they need diff representatives