FEMINISM Flashcards
(20 cards)
Refets to an extended period of feminist activity during the 19 century and the early 20th century in the United Kingdom in the United States
First wave
Refers to the period of activity in the early 1960s and lasting through the late 1990s
Second wave
Began in the early 1990s, arising as a response to perceive failures of the second wave and also as a response to the backlash against initiatives and movements created by the second wave
Third wave
A phase of feminism began around 2013 and characterized by a focus on the empowerment of women in the use of Internet tools
Fourth wave
A range of political movements, ideology, and social movements that share a common goal to define, establish, and achieve equal, political, economic, personal, and social rights for women.
Refers to the belief that women and men should have equal opportunities in economic, political, and social life.
FEMINISM
Refers to a belief in traditional, gender role, stereotypes, and the inherent inequality between men and women
Sexism
- male or female
•Biological attributes
SEX
- refers to socially constructed olesties oh aviors boys, presioner gentd diverse people.
GENDER
- commonly referred as straight.
heteroma no opposite sex
• - sexually attracted to people of one’s own sex.
HETEROSEXUAL
HOMOSEXUAL
Summons how women’s location in, and experience of, social situations differ from men
For example, girls or women are generally expected to dress in typical feminine way and be polite, accommodating, and nurturing
Gender differences
Theories posit, that women’s oppression and inequality are result of capitalism, patriarchy, and racism
Structural oppression
System of attitudes, bias, and discrimination, that favor, male-female sexuality, and relationships
Heterosexism
Recognizes that women’s location in and experience of social situations are not only different but also an equal to men’s
Discrimination on the basis of sex or gender, causing one sex or gender to be routine the privilege or prioritized over another
Gender inequality
Focused on providing men and women with the same equal opportunities and resources
GENDER EQUALITY
- recognizes that each person has different circumstances and allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome.
GENDER EQUITY
Types of femisim
Radical Feminism
Marxist Feminism
Liberal Feminism
Difference feminism
Seeks to this mental, traditional, patriarchal, power and gender rules focuses on male oppression of females, both privately and politically viewed the oppression of women as the most fundamental form of oppression one that cuts across boundaries, a free culture and economic class aim structure society, completely domination of women by men
Radical Feminism
Analyzes the ways in which women are exploited through capitalism and the individual ownership of private property argue that working class women are exploited by both patriarchy and capitalism women were systematically oppressed by the ruling class treated merely as second class citizens
Marxist Feminism
Focuses on the basic similarities between men and women, whose ultimate goal is equality of the success in all domains
to free women
Liberal Feminism
A perspective that sees how much women are oppressed by the patriarchy, but also both capitalism and racism
emphasizes the difference between men and women
Difference Feminism
