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1
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What sort of feminism was first-wave feminism?

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Liberal feminism

2
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What are the key principles of liberal feminism?

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  • Liberty - women should be free to choose the nature of their own lives.
  • Equal opportunity - full access to education and a career of their choosing.
  • Civil rights - the law must never discriminate against women.
  • Private rights - women should be able to own property.
  • Democracy - the right to vote and stand for election.
3
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What did Betty Friedan call patriarchy?

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‘the problem with no name’

4
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Other than male superiority, what else does patriarchy involve according to Betty Friedan?

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the self-assigned inferiority of women that could not see their own oppression.

5
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What is meant by ‘otherness’?

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Treating women as separate to society and inferior to men.

6
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What 3 forms of action do liberal feminists propose to combat patriarchy?

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  • Gender equality - the end of discrimination and allowing women to make their own life decisions.
  • Education - meant to combat cultural attitudes that reinforced women’s inferiority.
  • Formal equality - equal treatment before the law and equal protection of rights between men and women.
7
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When did liberal (or first-wave) feminism dominate up to?

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1960s

8
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What are the characteristics of radical feminism?

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  • The destruction of patriarchal society through revolution.
  • Female consciousness.
  • They are difference feminists, stressing and celebrating the differences between men and women.
9
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How are women exploited in marriage according to Kate Millet?

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Sexually and economically

10
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What did Germaine Greer assert in her 1970 book ‘The Female Eunuch’?

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  • men oppress women because they hate them.

- women have been taught to hate themselves.

11
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What did Andrea Dworkin believe women needed to do?

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Form lesbian communities to stop being seen as sex objects to men.

12
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How do radical feminists propose to combat patriarchy?

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  • Abolition of the nuclear family and the creation of communal child rearing.
  • Sexual liberation by escaping traditional male-female relationships.
  • The elimination of biological roles, where androgynous people no longer need men to reproduce using technology to reproduce instead.
13
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What is cultural feminism?

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A type of feminism that accepts that women are born culturally and biologically different, and that these differences are both useful to society and superior to men’s characteristics.

14
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How do cultural feminists view women’s roles?

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They accept that women are more likely to take up domestic roles but value them as highly, if not higher, than roles played by men.

15
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Where do socialist feminists focus their efforts?

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On the plight of working-class women.

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What do socialist feminists argue will liberate women from their inferior economic position?

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The extreme modification of capitalism.

17
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In the eyes of socialist feminists, who draw on the ideas of Engels, what are women in the capitalist system?

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A source of low-paid and expendable labour.

18
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What do socialist feminists seek above all?

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The liberation of women from their economic dependence upon men.

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How do liberal feminists suggest bringing about the end of female economic oppression by men?

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  • Power is to be distributed more evenly in society.

- A change in culture through education.

20
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What is post-modernism?

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A general term for rejecting thinking that is limited to traditional ways of viewing the world; for feminism this means rejecting socialist and radical feminist ideas.

21
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What do post-modern feminists stress the importance of?

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The importance of language in carrying forward patriarchal attitudes towards sexism.

22
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What do post-modern feminists believe?

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That women should be given the freedom to make their own choices and choose the nature of their relationships; they may choose traditional roles, or they may choose less traditional ones.

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